Fun fact: Kagura (神楽), the ceremonial music, translates roughly to mean "entertainment for the gods", since it's specifically a Shinto ritual dance session for the kami/gods. One of my professors in his first trip to Japan passed by a kagura group once and they handed him a cup of sake, saying "the gods like you drunk". That's, that's a thing that happens...

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

fact

SRH: Sho sounds thiccc me: How does that describe musi- Sho: *Plays* me: ah.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😆

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha I told you!!!

I have just heard a wooden instrument that sounds like a Saxophone and another that sounds like a pipe organ. Holy crap

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Ooooo

@nidohime6233

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe there are time travelers.

@LadyCoyKoi

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! The biggest difference is that they are travel size and hey cost less than an actual sax and organ. ^_^

@40EntrepreneurDrive

4 жыл бұрын

As a former saxophone player (high school) I would have lost money on betting that I was hearing a saxophone playing

@robinzhang8176

3 жыл бұрын

You mean,hichiriki?

Me : doesn’t read the title properly Also me : “So we can’t hear the music?”

@lunaamore2713

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. You sir are a royal. You may listen my lord

There is something really bewitching about Shō's sound. It's really fascinating

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed

"Too late for karaoke." *sings karaoke* The answer, as always, is Horse Archers.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Where is my dislike button?!

7:53 Wasn’t planning on it, but I had to.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

I sure did

@Jobe-13

4 жыл бұрын

Linfamy 😂

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Love your reacts

@ghostsomnia

3 жыл бұрын

He has multiple personality disorder

@kimarna

3 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy please do a full version

Answer: They used huge robot bears.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

correct

Emishi soldiers fought atop red elks named Yakul-- I mean... They did horseback archery.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Hah

@WhuDhat

3 жыл бұрын

Archers>Cannons

@dreliq981

2 жыл бұрын

I just realized: is princess mononoke an Emishi?

The Sho instrument is similar to the Chinese instrument (shēng). They share the same characters. Just a different pronunciation. Japanese 日本語 : Sho 笙 Chinese 華語 ： shēng 笙

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Correct :p

@joshuamartindale868

4 жыл бұрын

That instrument was brought back to Europe in the 18th century and from it the Germans developed the Harmonica ☺

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Correct sir!

The emishi used horse mounted archers. SPOILER ALERT! As the chinese learned in mulan, this kind of warfare is especially effective vs singing troops, but very susceptible to fireworks.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao 😂

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Yay for linfamy singing. It was so beautiful 😭😭😭

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

So....... Gagaku is like modern saxophone Sho is like high octave organ

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Sigh... alas you are correct sir

@alexcarter8807

Жыл бұрын

Hijiriki is like a sax .... and now I want one.

We got music in this video. Production costs through the roof! Gagaku performance (with dance!): kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z4N1mqp_hbHMec4.html Motonori Miura - Georgia On My Mind: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eX91m9STdbSWZKw.html Musical history: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qXuGt65ugsXbd9I.html Please consider supporting the channel =) 🔸PATREON (blog, art): www.patreon.com/Linfamy 🔸MERCH: teespring.com/stores/linfamy (shirts, stickers, phone cases, and more!) 🔸DONATE: www.paypal.me/Linfamy

_My first introduction to gagaku music/art was Naruto Shippuden, particularly studying the music and instruments used by legendary composer Yasuharu Takanashi. I love how each facet, each instrument, of the orchestra has it's philosophical necessity. Wht I love most is how the music of Gagaku in Japan doesn't just encompass music...or even art, in terms of study: it quite stems from a particular way of life and thinking, and is even reflected in the geography, climate and culture itself. It's a very involved, but extremely subtle thing, and that's the easy-to-overlook beauty behind it, I think. A lot of people (particularly outside Japan, and even many within the local masses) don't realise how interconnected and involved Gagaku and music composition in general is._ Thank you

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

*slow clap*

@Hx_jamie

4 жыл бұрын

Oh same 😂

The only type of music that can make you feel the atmosphere of everything in it. Seasons, colors, everything.

I love when you draw your mini you hostage. It just makes it funny to watch with a colab video

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

XD

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Its not just a drawing my friend.

Thank you guys for making videos about musical traditions that weren't even covered in my world music classes. This budding ethnomusicoligist is about to spend the rest of the weekend with some Gagaku. The Emishi used cavalry archers.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Tell your professors to cover Gagaku! :D

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

We try our best! More to come :-)

I started to look up gagaku performances that I could go to... then I remembered that it's 2020.

@Linfamy

3 жыл бұрын

😭

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

oh man... dark and sad

Its quite similar to Joseon court music, and i love it!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

correct

I liked this video! The thick woodwind instrument sounded like a portable organ. Loved your singing at the end too. The Emishi used horse mounted archers.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!

Dear Naruhito heika Could your highness please add the noble shakuhachi back to the gagaku ensable May you rule for ten thousand years Sicerely Audience of Linfamy, KZread

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

beautiful

Interesting thanks for sharing Lin and Shawn

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love this music. I've been trying to memorize one of the dances as well. I can't put words to my feelings!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Wow glad you like!

The emishi has mounted archers. Love seeing asian music, europe seems to think only they made great music.

Great stuff you guys! Thanks! 👍👍...and Linfamy, you are a nut! 😆

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

*You're* a nut :p

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

:-)

That was really informative thanks

Beautiful! I love Dreams one of my favorite movies, I never knew what that scene was playing. Thanks for information, definitely looking to see where I can hear it live!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad you like it

The Emishi mainly used horse mounted archers, a sign of things to come in the later Kamakura period

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😉

This should have more views. Excellent content.

0:09 is me when I have home work

So, I'm here to answer the question: Emishi ONLY used mounted archers. And yes, thanks for the vids, is it ok if I use one in my presentation about shinto?

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Go for it =)

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

You should!!! Spread the knowledge :-)

For another example of gagaku ensemble instruments in modern composition I recommend Tim Hecker's Konoyo.

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

ooo nice!

The taira no kiyomori ost sounded great performed in gagaky style.

I never saw "Dreams" before but now, I'm enamored with the funeral scene because of this video.

In Jōdo Shinshu buddhist temples it's common to play gagaku music in the entry and quit of monks in the altar, representing the opening of the portal to Pure Land, the Realm of Enlightenment, where the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and ancestors come to the ceremony for the monks to give them their voices for them to teach the Buddhist Wisdom for us

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

that's right!

Shawn, you're the best guest on this channel, and there's some good ones.

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

As an Asian, I've always wanted to know if other Asian countries also share the same taste in their court music. When I heard the first sample at 0:52, I thought that it sounds like a section in Malay court music; The Nobat, which is a court music reserved for a certain occasion like the King's or Agong's ascension to the throne. I guess Asian countries do share things in common with each other.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

That's interesting!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

mhmm

@aimananderil

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I thought it was Nobat too.

This video was fascinating, thanks!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you like

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

:-)

I found your video through Yoko Ono... IDK how, but your videos are very enjoyable and give me a deep insight of music I had listened to but never knew what it was. Subscribed!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Yoko Ono? 🤨🤔😂

@Shahzad-Khan

4 жыл бұрын

Linfamy so some video was explaining how yoko onos “art” if that’s what you could even consider it, has roots of traditional Japanese singing which has deep emotions and waist of sadness. But she has no vocal range

The emishi liked having horse mounted turrets - I mean archers

Sho... the best way to describe it as the following... a travel size organ. Upon first hearing one I said, "It sounds like a small organ." My professor then proceeded to show us a photo of a Sho. I was like... "I can finally have my very own organ." I would love to learn to use one, though my Sho music would all be called Symphony of Farts. LOL

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

fact

Impressive video, thank you.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

:-)

The Emishi were using mainly (but certainly not exclusively) small groups of Horse Archers performing quick raids and flanking maneuvers. Their skill was so much that the court noted: "Horse and Bow Warfare is learned from birth by the Barbarians. Ten of our Subjects can not equal one of them."

The sound of the Sho gives me mad crazy chills. But the whole ensemble is so amazing.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😁👍

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Facts

Just joined a Japanese class 2days back and this appears on my recommendation :) A new subscriber here 👋💜

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

KZread knows all. Welcome! First rule of this channel is you must sacrifice a pokemon. And good luck with your studies =)

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

YES!

Man, my friend loved that song from Mulan

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

lol

The Emishi used mounted horse back archers for hit a run style attack’s!

just time, i need lullaby rn

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome

4:00 that oboe-thing sounds great!

Awwwwww, I wanted to listen to your voice!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Pssst... watch til the end :p

This video was really amazing.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

you're amazing

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Linfamy is amazing

Justin Bieber BEWARE! There's a new king to take the music throne, and it's a Japanese grandpa with a nice mask who can make people feel at peace in 100,000 ways, more than your 0.0001 ways

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

The notion that Justin Bieber is on the musical throne... XD

@matthewhernandez1240

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy No, he's in the lowest throne, the ear-bleeding throne The Japanese grandpa with a nice mask just lowered his chances of sitting on the music throne even lower from 0.001 to 0.00000001

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Haha

Thanks a lot for this video! I'm actually studying Ryuteki right now, so this was fun to see! If you know where to look for them, Gagaku concerts are way more common (and a lot cheaper to attend than you'd expect) in Japan, so I hope anyone visiting can check it out!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Good luck with your studies!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

THATS AWESOME!

Petition for Shakuhachi to be added back

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

🙌

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

!!! Please!!!!

There are many chances to see gagaku (especially bugaku performances) in Japan, in shrines and temples. Shitennō-ji Temple in Osaka, Kasuga Shrine in Nara and Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture have performances throughout the year. Other places are: many shrines in Kyoto; some other places in Nara; Sumiyoshi Shrine in Osaka; Meiji Jingū in Tokyo; Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture; Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya.

I had the privilege of playing the hichiriki in the gagaku orchestra at the university of Washington.

Nice vocals there 👍

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😉

Great video, the instruments sounded really good.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

👍

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!

If the hichiriki is like noisy crickets, the sho is like cicadas in a tree on a warm summers eve.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

oooo

Are you Shinto believer? FYI I love your channel. I saw the first video you posted and many other vids. Thank you!!!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not a Shinto believer. Thanks! Glad you like the vids

The first little bit of the sho demo reminds me of the OG Star Trek transporter sounds.

Wow, the sho reminds me a lot of certain additive synthesis sounds... then again, additive can sound like almost anything if you add enough partials.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

me too

Nice video! Be back tmr to watch the video coz I have to sleep.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Oh okay, night night

Shō and Hichiriki are cool instruments. Both kinda remind me of Irish pipe instruments and Organs (like the one played by the band Emerson lake and Palmer) Hichiriki is like a sax for non sax players. I love the Shō chords.

Me doing other things: 😴 Me when Linfamy uploads: 😳

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

#mylife

I LOVE GAGAKU!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

YAASSSS

a beautiful piece of japanese history and culture. I thank you sir.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😉👍

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching !

AWESOME ! LOVE IT !! BEST VIDEOS ON KZread :-)

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You're stuff is always so light-hearted. Do you know if Shawn discusses the instruments and music in Sekiro any further on his own channel?

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

I do not, but I totally could one day.

Love your videos, keep up the good work Linfamy :) Answer: Horse archers... guys on a horse with a bow... not the other way around...

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

I love his videos too.

First I fell in love with the classical music that is typically thought of by a Western man. Western classic composers like Mozart are amazing but the classical music from Japan is so beautiful 😍

@TairyuShakuhachi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this kind of content. Recently I had a lecture about an instrument and guess what? I picked the shakuhachi!

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Picked it for what?

@j.kessler1066

4 жыл бұрын

The lecture I gave. I really got inspired by your video a few days before the decision about the self instrument. Big thankyou! Keep up!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Yay!!

The Civilization 5 game used it for Japanese. Beautiful.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Nice!

This music keeps reminding me of inuyasha over and over again like seriously every time you play a note I can't get inuyasha out of my head

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Yes lots of chords and melodies inspired from here! Good ears!

I was privileged to play hichiriki in the gagaku orchestra at the University of Washington

The answer is archers on horses Love your videos 😀👍

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

😁👍

Nice to learn about this. I agree, the Gagaku ensambles should bring shakuhachi back. It fits in with the haunting motif.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Facts. Thank you!

As a piece of Gagako is also performvin the Tenrikyo religion

Rolling for it again. Emishi used Mounted Archers.

I know it's 2021 now, but I just binge watched all of your videos and the answer is horse archers....can I has prize? notice me linfamy-san!

@Linfamy

3 жыл бұрын

Lol that's quite the binge! Too late for prize though :p

@XenophonAnabasis

3 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy eh that's fine the animation and humor is prize enough lol

0:23 Ah, Halloween at the Stripclub.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

🤔

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

For a moment I thot gagaku was Lady Gaga Thank you for uploading this

The functions of the left and right brains differ between native speakers of Japanese and native speakers of foreign languages. Music, mechanical sounds, noise are the right brain, and language sounds are left brains, and both Japanese and Westerners are common. Vowels, crying, laughter, lamentation, insects and animal squeals, waves, wind, sound of rain, babbling, Japanese musical instrument sounds, etc. are heard by the Left Brain. Westerners listen to musical instruments and noise in their right brains Gagaku is a genre of Japanese music(Hougaku) Gagaku was originally a fusion of music from Asian countries, and about 1,000 years ago, it was completed in a rough shape. It is said that the present form was formed in the Nara period. As the music of the court, it is still performed at the events of the Imperial Family. In a familiar example, it is played at a wedding ceremony in front of the God.

I was playing a game the has that music and it came on at the same time it did in the video

Hearing Gagaku always make me sleepy. And if you want to hear modern style gagaku, search for Shikata Akiko music, her music is a masterpiece.

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

It's pretty slow yeah :p

Archer on horse 🏇 P.s. you have an awesome channel ✌😍

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you like it

Pretty good singing voice:)

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

;)

Refined, elegant.... You're kidding, right?

Emishi were archers on horseback and started training at a very young age

The Sho is like the Japanese bagpipe!

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

It's a juicy contradiction

The music sounds very ominous, like “I’m gonna get you”

Wow that Sho is like a cute little organ 😮 Oh and they used mounted archers :)

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

I love sho!

Answer: Emishi mainly used horseback archers

I love gagaku, ever since I first heard it when I was in 9th grade - yeah, my music tastes are pretty eclectic, to say the least. Aesthetically, it reminds me a lot of gamelan sekaten music from the courts of Central Java, which is played on gigantic gamelan instruments once a year for 6 days (in celebrations of Maulud, the prophet Muhammad's birthday). However, unlike in gagaku, Sekaten musicians typically play quickly (and loudly) towards the conclusion of a piece - part of that is due to a promise made by the Sultan/Sunan, whereby he is to give a prize to whoever can succeed in breaking one of the heavy bronze bars while playing. (To my knowledge, no one has succeeded in this task yet, even with buffalo-horn mallets topped with lead...) Here's some footage just from this year - better yet, this is footage of the piece Gendhing Rambu (pelog lima), the traditional opening piece for the annual Sekaten performance, where bystanders wait for the opening notes to take down the magically-charged palm decorations: kzread.info/dash/bejne/c5aVs7VtdazeiZc.html

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, liking gagaku music at 9th grade. That's certainly different ;)

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

9th grade! Wow!

@SiKedek

4 жыл бұрын

@@TairyuShakuhachi - Yep, that's right! (BTW, any thoughts on the Sekaten material?)

@SiKedek

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy - Quite different, but I was a weird kid, especially when it concerned music. (BTW, have you had a chance to listen to the Sekaten music yet?)

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

@@SiKedek I am not well versed enough to give an opinion or thought.

There's gagaku music in the game Okami as well I think

Talking about music...definitely better then hearing it.

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Mmmmm yes

The Sho is like the Shend in the Chinese Orchestra

@TairyuShakuhachi

4 жыл бұрын

Sheng, and yes!

@Linfamy, they mostly used mounted archers