Musume Dojoji

Musume Dojoji (The Maiden at the Dojo Temple) [1753].

Music by Kineya Yasaburo I: voice, 2 shamisen, shinobue, okedo (double-headed folk drum), 2 ko-tsuzumi, taiko, 2 kane. Musume Dojoji is one of the great dance-dramas of the kabuki stage. The ancient legend of a young women possessed by unrequited love provides the framework for a series of solo dances that take the girl from innocence, through frustration, to her transformation into a vengeful serpent-demon. In this performance three exerpts are linked. The first is a tama (jewel), improvised by the lead shamisen against accompanying ground patterns of the second shamisen, a flute an percussion. The second is a wistful song that demonstrates the characteristic relationship between shamisen and voice [...] The final excerpt is a true display of shamisen virtuosity.
(from the booklet)

Ensemble Nipponia

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[CrissySnow]

@MitStumpfUndStiel a video game LOL

[Alkinine]

@CaiteDesu They may have played the music themselves but it wasn't 'their own music'

[Alkinine]

@CaiteDesu no they didn't the beginning of this song was played after Sayuri did the snow dance scene and all the cameras were going off and the confetti was flying everywhere. The fire scene where Hatsumomo tries to burn down the house had a musical excerpt from 'ogi no mato' and the snow dance scene itself has music taken from a song called kanjincho. Memoirs of a geisha didnt make its own japanese music.

[MitStumpfUndStiel]

0:41-1:01 where do I know this from? i think I heard that somewhere before...?!

[miggy53092]

i love JAPAN!... hahaha,

i'm from Phillipines though... but traditional arts & acts here are rarely appreciated... hmm I feel sad about it... anybody try watching this "SINGKIL" hope you love it... ^_^

[640509040147LAMiA]

ooh wonderful...

thx for updating and thank for giving information about the song :D

[640509040147LAMiA]

@Hanakow

ufff... para ti y para mi es muy dificil entenderlo, en las explicaciones de otros videos leí que hablaban sobre batallas, confrontaciones entre Daymos o caciques mas o menos...

mencanta a pesar de mi ignorancia

[Hanakow]

Qué dice la letra?

[xxxkimododragonxxx]

yes it was - it was at the bit when she was talking to dr. crab then gave him the cake thing after her 'dance'

[CaiteDesu]

No, it deff. was not. Memoirs used their own music... for better or worse.