Japanese Biwa Player playing "Dan-no-ura" a song about the last battle between the Heike and Genji clans.
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Japanese Biwa Player playing "Dan-no-ura" a song about the last battle between the Heike and Genji clans.
Dan-no-ura was the site of the last battle of the Gempei War in which the Heike clan was finally destroyed by the Genji clan.
Centuries later, legends say a blind biwa player was tricked into playing for the restless spirits of the Heike. He barely escaped with his life paying the price of his ears being ripped off. This story is known as Hoichi the Earless and appears in the Kwaiden.
Around the 4 minute mark, she starts shredding some wicked licks like a geisha Jimi Hendricks! I half-expected her to set her biwa on fire at the end. The accompanying thunderclaps were more than appropiate.
Towards the end a thunderstorm struck suddenly and ominously. She was playing the song in Yunishigawa in Tochigi where Heike refugees fled to in hiding. The thunderstorm gave the performance an eery supernatural feeling. It stopped not long after she finished.
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This incomparable performance is a breathtaking example of how they used to keep documentation of prominent moments in ancient times... I sometimes feel that technology is the main reason for mankind's cultural decay... but then I wouldn't have my laptop.... it's sad is what it is...
hey dave how abou uplaoding the whole performce without out any comments and intros uncut if u have it cu zthis is a really awsome moment you caught greets youra
Its a shame that there are so few biwa players out there nowadays, since a lot of the Chinese/Japanese traditional songs they were created to play have been lost to history
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how abou uplaoding the whole performce
without out any comments and intros
uncut
if u have it
cu zthis is a really awsome moment you caught
greets youra
This performer should be a National Treasure and her performances preserved for all to see.