Meanings

incidental music

Romantic music

Qing-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 19th century)

Ming and Qing-era Chinese music (as popularized in Japan before the First Sino-Japanese war)

Ming-era Chinese music (popularized in Japan during the early 17th century)

Indian song and dance (introduced to Japan by the Chams in approx. 736 CE)

singing and dancing

style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance

style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance

kagura flute (six-holed horizontal flute)

sarugaku (form of theatre popular in Japan during the 11th to 14th centuries)

kagura hall (at a shrine)

form of ancient Chinese entertainment similar to a circus (brought to Japan during the Nara period)

kagura (esp. when performed at the imperial palace)

Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)

noh

membranophone

aerophone

electrophone

chordophone