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This is a Nagauta piece from the Undetermined school . Genroku Hanami Odori is also known as: Genroku Cherry Blossoms Viewing Dance.

Genroku Hanami Odori appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Art of the Japanese Bamboo Flute, The  (Listen)
Art of the Japanese Bamboo Flute, The (Olympic)
Koto no Miryoku - Disk 2  (Listen)
Music of Japan  (Listen)
The most brilliant section of a famous nagauta piece is arranged here into a piece for a koto, three shamisen and a small orchestras of Western instruments. Nagauta is a genre of the traditional music of Japan for voice with shamisen which developed during Edo Period chiefly as an accompaniment for Kabuki dance. The original piece is a very lively one describing the merriment of cherry-blossoms viewing at Ueno hill (present Ueno Park in Tokyo, a famous cherry- blossoms viewing place) in the Genroku Era (1688~1704). Genroku is the segment of Edo Period, during which Japanese culture reached a zenith of gorgeousness and the epicurean tendencies of people came to extremity.
Shamisen Genroku Hanami-Odori  (Listen)
Shamisen II  (Listen)