The Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance by Hugh De Ferranti

The Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance

Cornell East Asia

Hugh De Ferranti

336 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art biography classics historical literary medium-paced
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This work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996), a man widely portrayed as the last such living relic of the medieval bar...

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