[to the Japanese Version]
Entertainment
Biwa
(Japanese lute)
Bunraku
(Puppet theater)
Daidogei
(Street performances)
Gagaku
(Ancient court music)
Gidayu
(A school of ballad drama)
Hogaku
(Traditional Japanese music)
Joruri
(Ballad drama)
Kabuki
Kabuki no butai
(Kabuki stage)
Kodan
(Historical narrative)
Koto
(Japanese stringed instrument made of wood)
Kouta
(Little ballads)
Kyogen
Manzai
(Comic dialogue)
Min'yo
(Folk songs)
Nagauta
(Long epic songs)
Naniwa-bushi
(Naniwa-bushi recitings)
Nihonbuyo
(Classical Japanese dance)
Noh
Noh-butai
(Noh stage)
Rakugo
(Comic storytelling)
Shamisen
(Japanese stringed instrument shaped like a banjo)
Shakuhachi
(Five-holed bamboo clarinet)
Shigin
(Recitation of Chinese poems)
Takiginoh
(Firelight Noh)
Utai
(Noh chant)
Warabeuta
(Children's songs)