六段の調（上）
Six steps, part 1 of 2
The best-known danmono: six instrumental sections of 104 beats each, played on koto with no singing and gradually quickening. Hagioka Shōin was a leading Yamada-school koto master in Tokyo; this acoustic Nipponophone disc fits the piece on two sides.
- Performer
- Hagioka Shōin, Chifu Toyose
- Composer
- Yatsuhashi Kengyō (attrib.)
- Instrument
- Koto 箏
- Era
- Taishō
- Recorded
- 1925
- Length
- 3:31
- Licence
- Public domain · National Diet Library, Historical Recordings Collection (国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション「歴史的音源」)Nipponophone 15545, issued May 1925 (recorded February 1925); public domain in the US (published 1925 or earlier). Marked public domain and internet-public by the National Diet Library.
- Source
- National Diet Library (Rekion)
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