Takahashi Chikuzan

Takahashi Chikuzan
Tsugaru-Shamizen

Album : Tsugaru-Shamizen
Artist : Takahashi Chikuzan
Release date : 1996
Number of discs : 1
Genre : Traditional
Total Time : 00:51:53
Total size : 118 MB

Tracks :
1. Tsugaru-Shamisen Suits
2. Jonkara bushi
3. Tsugaru jonkara bushi (secondary)
4. Tsugaru jonkara bushi
5. Yasaburo bushi
6. Tsugaru sansagari
7. Tsugaru onto
8. Tsugaru yosare bushi (Original)
9. Tsugaru yosare bushi
10. Tsugaru Oharabushi (Original)
11. Tsugaru Oharabushi
12. Ayuga sawa jinku
13. Josanno yama
14. Ringo bushi
15. Tsugaru aiya bushi

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Tsugaru-jamisen (津軽三味線) is a genre of shamisen music originating in Aomori prefecture in the northernmost area of the Japanese island of Honshū. It is today performed throughout Japan, though associations with the Tsugaru area of Aomori remain strong.
The genre is played on a large shamisen with thicker strings than those used for most other styles. The bachi (plectrum) is proportionately small. Tsugaru-jamisen is easy to recognize by its percussive quality (the plectrum striking the body of the instrument on each stroke) and the lilt of the rhythms performed. Unlike most other Japanese music, some Tsugaru-jamisen pieces are in triple time, though the three beats are not accentuated in the manner of Western music.　A technique unique to the Tsugaru-jamisen style in recent years is the tremolo played with the back of the bachi without hitting the skin.　
Chikuzan Takahashi
Real Name: 高橋定蔵 (Takahashi Sadakura)
Profile: Blind Japanese tsugaru-jamisen player. Born June 1910; died February 5, 1998.
Largely responsible for the post-war boom in tsugaru-jamisen music. Before his death, he bequeathed his professional name to one of his female students who then became Takahashi Chikuzan II.

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