笙と篳篥 / Shou and Hichiriki

These are the wind instruments. The Shou is a Japanese free reed musical instrument that was introduced from China during the Nara period. The Hichiriki is a double reed Japanese fue used as one of two main melodic instruments in Japanese gagaku music, the other being the ryuuteki.

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[princebabz69]

absolutely beautiful

[EvaReven10594]

Thank you for comment.

I agree!

[dean122292]

He played sakura sakura!!

[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)

[britters220]

OMG HIS CHEEKS!! >_<

[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.

[shimmertone]

amazing sound!

[treez878]

wow look at his cheeks

[minnesodawalesjamesb]

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

[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.

[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。