笙と篳篥 / Shou and Hichiriki

[britters220]

OMG HIS CHEEKS!! >_<

[shimmertone]

amazing sound!

[treez878]

wow look at his cheeks

[sabotenyankee]

笙イイですよね。

[alincielo]

thank you for this interesting video!!!

[ivasenko48]

私は笙が一番好きですか、篳篥が嫌いですよ。

[Hachoo1]

actually the shou is almost equivalent to the chinese sheng, notice that their sound is almost the same but different sizes.

[gariadara]

@Hachoo1 well yeah, the vid description says the shou came from China during the Nara Period. the names Shou and Sheng are also obviously cognate.

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@gariadara

Yes, if you also understand the Chinese character used for both transliterations. "Sheng" is the Chinese romanization (but not in Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Macau, where they use "sang" as the romanization), and "shou" is the Japanese romanization.

[minnesodawalesjamesb]

@Hachoo1 And also the flute thing "Hichi-richi" also from China (Chinese: Bi li)

[gariadara]

@minnesodawalesjamesb It's hichiriki. And yes, it's a Chinese instrument. It was pronounced Bit-lit in Middle Chinese. In modern Cantonese, it is But-leut. The Japanese pronunciation was carried over from the Chinese one, it used to be Pit(i)-Rit(i) but after the T to Ch and P to H mutations occurred from archaic Japanese to Modern Japanese : Bit -> Piti ->Hiti -> Hichi (T is changed to CHI where the i is more or less silent), Lit -> Riti ->Richi/ki (T to CH sometimes gave way to T to K)

[dean122292]

He played sakura sakura!!

[changingelement]

wait was that in the movie ugetsu monogatari

[princebabz69]

absolutely beautiful

[EvaReven10594]

Thank you for comment.

I agree!