Japanese Manuscript NAGAUTA Shamisen

Item: Japanese traditional music manuscript

Content: Japanese traditional music Nagauta. Nagauta (長唄, literally "long song") is a kind of traditional Japanese music played on the shamisen and used in Kabuki Theater, primarily to accompany dance and to provide reflective interludes

Date: 13th year of Taisho (1924) on the back cover

Origin: Japan

Language: Japanese

Calligraphy: kanji and Hentaigana mixed

Dimensions: 23 x 17 cm

Material: Washi Paper

Pages: 100+ folded sheets of thin Washi paper

Design: Manuscript with Nagauta lyrics including famous songs like Aioi-jishi, Oimatsu, Sumidagawa, etc, six lines per page with notations and voiced sound marks in red along the text. Hand-written with brush and black ink in elegant cursive script

Condition: good condition for its age, with some signs of aging and use as expected such as page foxing, edge and cover wear, folding edges of some pages. 

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