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The 5th place I would like to
introduce for this week is Tokyo Fuji Art Museum in Hachiōji,
Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum was founded
in 1983 by Daisaku Ikedain Hachiōji, Tokyo,
Japan. The museum's collection comprises approximately 30,000 pieces of
Japanese, Eastern and Western artworks of various periods and cultures, from
paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, ceramics and lacquerware to armor,
swords and medallions.
Daisaku Ikeda
Of particular noteworthy is its outstanding collection
of Western oil paintings spanning 500 years from the Renaissance to the Baroque
and postmodernist eras as well as its exceptional collection of photographic
masterpieces.
Under the motto of "A museum
creating bridges around the world," the museum sponsors various
exhibitions that introduce the world's best artistic treasures to Japan. For
example, the museum's international art exhibitions have introduced masterpieces
from the world's most famous museums, including the Louvre in Paris and the
Palace Museum of Beijing, to the Japanese public.
In addition, at the request of
governments and cultural organizations around the world, the museum has loaned
Japanese and Eastern art and Western paintings to museums around the world.
The works of Modigliani currently
in the possession of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum are as follows.
Portrait of Paul Alexander on green back- ground (1909)
The 32nd lecture for today is
"World Music: Japan".
This lecture was the 32nd lecture
of “ACJ Music Academy”, which was held on 5 December 2015.
Early Japanese music development
was made under the influence of China, Korea, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.
In particular, the facts that many
musicians went to Japan from the Korean peninsula in 453 AD and the Buddhism was
introduced to Japan in the 7th century were very important events in the
history of Japanese music.
Due to such events, the court music
"Gagaku" and the Buddhist music "Shomyo" began to develop from
this period in Japan.
In the early history of Japan, Gagaku
and Shomyo were developed, and the general art genres such as "Noh'' were developed
during the period up to 1500, when Japan's shogunate was established.
During this period, samurai and
monks had a great influence on Japanese music, and the music of monks who sang
with the accompaniment of Biwa, a Japanese lute instrument that came from Central
Asia through the Silk Road, was developed.
Since the period from 1500 to 1868
was the period of Japan's Sakoku policy, the musical influence of the outside
world was negligible, but the commercial activities of merchants became more
active, and "Shamisen'' music, reflecting the sophisticated urban culture, gradually
appeared.
During the Edo period, various
types of folk songs were developed, mainly singing labor and love, in line with
shamisen, drums, and flutes.
Kabuki, one of Japan's three
classic plays, appeared in the early 17th century, and was developed into a
more lively and friendly pop music form by combining Noh's narrative stories
and recitals with shamisen, flute and drums.
Kabuki has become one of Japan's
leading traditional arts since the Second World War through the international
performances in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Shamisen, one of the traditional
Japanese musical instruments, is a string instrument in which Chinese instrument, "Erhu”, of two strings was transformed into three strings after entering Japan
through Okinawa.
Shamisen, which means “three
flavored strings,” has three lines of different thickness.
It has now become an accompaniment
instrument for most of Japan's traditional music and one of the most popular
instruments in Japan.
Today, I will introduce 3 music as
follows:
1. Hanayagi-Ensemble
Nipponia
2. Kabuki
3. Rising-Yoshida
Brothers
You can listen to all the songs
from following YouTube link.
