Min'yō
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Min'yō, Nihon min'yō, Japanese min'yō or Japanese folk music is a genre of traditional Japanese music.
A Japanese folkswoman with her shamisen, 1904
Enka
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Enka is a Japanese music genre. It is considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which adopts a more traditional musical
Min'yō
…or religious ceremonies. Some of these accompaniments, in turn, have become independent, spawning solo instrumental genres such as Tsugaru-jamisen. Enka and many other popular genres are also rooted in min'yō. During the 20th century many songs have been altered to become highly virtuosic melodies that…
Soeda Azenbō, enka-shi in the Meiji Period
The memorial museum of singer Hideo Murata
The 1984 monument of Naomi Chiaki's song covered by Takashi Hosokawa "Yagiri no Watashi" at Matsudo City