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The Last Remnants of a Mendicant Musicians' Guild: The Goze in Northern Honshu (Japan)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Eta Harich-Schneider
Eta Harich-Schneider*
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Vienna Academy of Music
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Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference. Liège, Belgium
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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 11 , 1959 , pp. 56 - 59
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1959

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page 56 note * From the author's unpublished collection.

page 56 note † The two Chinese characters which stand for the word “Goze” mean literally “blind woman”: the character meaning “blind” is a compound of the one for “hand-drum” and the one for “eye” —a curious coincidence, as the blind in the Far Eastern cultures have been making their living in the musical professions since the earliest times.

page 59 note * Three-stringed lute with a flat body and long, straight neck. Played with a plectrum. Popular Geisha instrument.

page 59 note † With biographical information I have been assisted by Mr. Haruhiko Asakura, Reference Librarian of the Tokyo Diet Library, to whom I wish to express my warmest gratitude.