Japanese Music
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...borrowed musical instruments, scales, and styles from many neighboring areas. The indigenous...before a.d. 453 consisted of chanted poems ( reyei and imayo ), traditional war...music using the sho (a mouth organ, the Chinese sheng ), the shakuhachi (a long flute...