История (William P Malm):

Kanjincho appears on the following albums

	Альбом	Исполнитель
	Ensemble Nipponia - Kabuki and other Traditional Music
The Subscription List The entrance music of the two hand-drums and flute (just after the kabuki-style flute-and-taiko curtain opening), evokes the gravity of a Noh performance. The introductory vocal, also in the style of the Noh, sets the scene of mountain priests on a journey (the shamisen interlude that follows is perhaps descriptive of that journey). The concluding excerpt from Kanjincho skips the central plot developments and moves directly to the rousing finale, a kind of victory celebration. Two instrumental interludes are heard here: the first, an expression of joyful intoxication, leads into a sung passage praising the purity and eternal plenty of waterfalls; the second, the famous taki nagashi. Depicts a waterfall's boundless energy. The final vocal section expresses the relief of the travelers as, inspired and re-invigorated by their experience, they resume their journey.
	Living National Treasure - Shamisen	Сямисен : Kineya Gosaburo
	Melody of Japan - Brightness of Summer	Кото : Yui Ensemble Сямисен : Sugiura Hirokazu
	Musical Atlas - Japan
The Kabuki is one of the three major genres of theatrical art in Japan. The word literally means song-dance-theatre, and the Kabuki is a spectacular synthesis of theatre, music, and dance. There is a vast repertoire of Kabuki plays allowing for a great variety of dance dramas. Each one-day performance consists of one or two dramas based on stories which usually have no connection with one another. Nagauta Shamisen music is used as the accompaniment of the dance drama, and also as background music for dramas of other types. The Shamisen is a lute with a small square wooden body covered with cat skin or dog skin an both sides and fixed to a thin, long (88 cm.) wooden stick, at the end of which a peg-box is attached. The three silk strings of different thicknesses are usually tuned either to do-fa-do, do-sol-do or do-fa-si flat. They are plucked with a large ivory or wooden plectrum shaped like the leaf of the Ginko tree. Although the size of the instrument is always practically the same, delicate differences of timbre are obtained by using strings and skins of different thicknesses and plectra of various sizes, by fitting bridges of various weights, etc. There are several schools of Shamisen music and also different styles suited to various occasions such as, for instance, theatre music and domestic music. Each school also has its own subtleties of timbre and its own playing technique. The music presented here is the final scene of a typical dance drama called Kanjincho. This historical drama tells the story of a young hero, Minamoto Yoshitsune, who had to escape from the capital Kyoto to the northern country because of a struggle with his brother Minamoto Yoritomo. The hero and his attendants, disguised as a humble guide and itinerant priests, try to pass through a police control at Ataka. The chief officer of the barrier recognizes that they are the team of Yoshitsune, but, moved by the tragic misfortune of the hero, he allows them to go. through. At the end of the drama a brave attendant named Benkei dances, drunk with the wine the officer has offered them, while the team pass through the barrier. The music here recorded depicts this last climax, which is accompanied with a piece of Nagauta Shamisen music. The fairly long instrumental interludes between the songs are performed on the Shamisen, flute and drums, and bring out the musical climax of this long drama.
	Shamisen Genroku Hanami-Odori