Folk musicThe biwa, a modify of short-necked lute, was played by a group of moving performers who used it to accompany stories. The most famous of these stories is The Tale of the Heike, a 12th century history of the boast of the Minamoto clan over the Taira Biwa hōshi began to organize themselves into a guild-like association for visually impaired men as early as the thirteenth century. This guild yet controlled a large portion of the musical culture of Japan.
In addition, numerous small groups of moving blindfold musicians were formed especially in the Kyushu area These musicians, famous as mōsō (blind monk) toured their local areas and performed a variety of religious and semi-religious texts to purify households and bring most good health and good luck. They also maintained a repertory of secular genres. The biwa that they played was substantially small than the Heike biwa played by the biwa hōshi.
Lafcadio Hearn related in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things \"Mimi-nashi Hoichi\" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese ghost story most a blindfold biwa hōshi who performs \"The Tale of the Heike\"
Blind women, famous as goze, also toured the land since the medieval era, singing songs and playing accompanying penalization on a lap drum. From the seventeenth century they often played the koto or the shamisen. Goze organizations sprung up throughout the land, and existed until recently in what is today Niigata prefecture.
In addition, numerous small groups of moving blindfold musicians were formed especially in the Kyushu area These musicians, famous as mōsō (blind monk) toured their local areas and performed a variety of religious and semi-religious texts to purify households and bring most good health and good luck. They also maintained a repertory of secular genres. The biwa that they played was substantially small than the Heike biwa played by the biwa hōshi.
Lafcadio Hearn related in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things \"Mimi-nashi Hoichi\" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese ghost story most a blindfold biwa hōshi who performs \"The Tale of the Heike\"
Blind women, famous as goze, also toured the land since the medieval era, singing songs and playing accompanying penalization on a lap drum. From the seventeenth century they often played the koto or the shamisen. Goze organizations sprung up throughout the land, and existed until recently in what is today Niigata prefecture.
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