Remembering the Past through Music: The Transmission of Chinese Qin Songs in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Japan

In the late seventeenth century, a Chinese Buddhist priest named Donggao Xinyue 東皋心越 (1639-1695) introduced a selection of qin 琴 songs (songs accompanied on the qin zither) to Japan. Over the following centuries, Japanese qin players continued to sing these songs in Chinese. This paper looks into th...

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Main Author: Wu, Zeyuan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Oriental Society [2020]
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Year: 2020, Volume: 140, Issue: 2, Pages: 345-360
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