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This is a Min'yo piece from the Min'yo school .

History (from Takahashi Ryozan)
Tsugaru is part of Tohoku (Sendai province). In this part of the country we find many very popular min-yo and some very unusual and brilliant melodies known as tsugaru-jamisen are played on the futo shamisen (with the thickest fingerboard). The tsugaru-jamisen are generally played at the beginning of ceremonies or celebrations.

Tsugaru Jongara Kyokubiki appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Min'yo - Folk Song from Japan - Takahashi Yujiro and friends  (Listen)
This flashy shamisen trio was arranged by Takahashi Yujiro based on the song "Tsugaru Jongara Bushi". The present recording features an improvised sols by Yujiro sandwiched by fixed sections. Often he and his students perform this with competing solos, in the spirit of earlier times. Copyright 1999 - Dr David W. Hughes e-mail dh6@soas.ac.uk
Minyo of Tohoku  (Listen)
Tsugaru is part of Tohoku (Sendai province). In this part of the country we find many very popular min-yo and some very unusual and brilliant melodies known as tsugaru-jamisen are played on the futo shamisen (with the thickest fingerboard). The tsugaru-jamisen are generally played at the beginning of ceremonies or celebrations.