I’m Japanese. I'm very happy that there are people who listen to this song and find it attractive.

I am Japanese. The music in this playlist is perfectly authentic Japanese traditional music. ✨The atmosphere as I was taught in school classes. I am very happy and surprised that people overseas know so much about Japanese culture. I sincerely thank everyone who loves Japanese culture. ありがとう😊 I'm sorry if there are any mistakes or rude words in my English.💦 Edit: Thanks for all the responses!

I am Japanese . And I am still happy to see people enjoy our music during the edo period,

I feel this music needs to be played in a forest, or by the river...somewhere in nature to complete it. It's like those heart lockets split in the middle...one half is the soul of the music we are listening to, the other have is the soul of sounds from the nature. Together they are complete and whole.

I've always been so fascinated with Japan, since I was a little kid. From the culture, art, history, food and the language. So much, that I recently started learning how to speak it. This is such beautiful music, thank you.

I'm a bit surprised to see some positive comments here. I have had the opportunity to listen to this kind of music since I was a child, so it relaxes me when I listen to it, but I thought it would be very monotonous and boring for non-Japanese people...

心が安らぎます。ありがとう。 日本人の和楽器奏者のUKposts動画は、歌謡曲や西洋のクラシック曲の真似事か雅楽という平安の頃の曲が多く、聞きたい音が探せなくて困っておりました。こちらで聴けて嬉しいです。

Музыка такая спокойная, знаете, будто только светает или солнце уже заходит, ветер тихонечко теребит листву и траву, такое умиротворение. (Вспомнила такой забавный случай. Я ехала в маршрутке, что-то типо автобуса, но меньше), слушала японскую музыку и читала книгу о Японии. Двери открываются, и в салон залетает дисточек с дерева, и так акуратненько падает на краешек книги😊

Such a rich and unique culture I have lived in Japan for almost fourty years now And I am still learning more about the culture I love the traditional side of Japan The Edo Jidai being my favourite time Thank you for posting this lovely music

I'm from Russia. I am now using a translator to say that I really like this music! I would like to visit Japan

風流な部屋でお酒呑みながら聴く演奏は最高だっただろうね、

I have had an curious fascination with Japan and Japanese culture since I was little. It is profound and hard to convey. It's just that as I grew up I felt that so much of what made me, ME, was mirrored and paralleled by what I saw heard and felt in Japanese culture. Like my heart and soul long to be reconnected to this long lost aspect of my self. So much so that when my sister passed away a decade ago I decided that since life is so temporary, and you never know when it is your last day, I needed to live, and to live FULLY, and NOW. The only thing I could think to do, was to make SURE I visit Japan. However life never works out the way you expect, and I never ended up going. I still long to visit someday. Thank you for this beautiful music.

Currently listening to while i wash dishes and take in the beauty of the red maple tree changing for fall out my window. I'm also a single Black mom, so my kids are listening too.

As a european I'm used to hearing european classical music and this is so refreshingly different! I find this is so relaxing and beautiful. I think I'll use this as a soundtrack to study to, it helps me concentrate much better than all the clashes and bangs and loud trumpets of european classical music haha!!

Japanese culture is very rich and beautiful.🇯🇵♥️

目を閉じて、自然の木や川や山を感じて、物語までも想像出来る落ち着く音楽。日本人には大切な物がたくさん詰まっています。外国の昔の音楽も魅力的な物がたくさん有り、素晴らしですね。

Joseon and Edo shogunate were good friends. I hope Korea and Japan become friends again!!🇰🇷❤🇯🇵

Undoubtedly, until the Edo period, Japan was not a Japanese culture, but a Japanese civilization. However, after the Meiji Era (1868-1912), while Japan accepted Western civilization and developed economically, Japanese civilization declined. When I read the memoirs of foreigners who came to Japan in those days, they seemed to be saddened by the soon-to-be disappearing Japanese civilization. After the Greater East Asia War, Japan was ordered to eliminate all nationalistic elements under the GHQ rule of the United States. After the GHQ rule ended, Japan developed with the dream of becoming the world's economic hegemon. U.S. military garrisons were left in the country. The novelist Yukio Mishima predicted the future of Japan at that time: "If things go on as they are, Japan will disappear, and in its place will remain an inorganic, empty, neutral, neutral-colored, wealthy, shrewd, economic power in a corner of the Far East. It is true that Japan returned to being one of the world's leading economic powers in the late 1980s. However, as a result of 30 years of drastic fiscal austerity since the 1990s, Japan has been stuck in a deflationary recession, income disparity has widened, society has become unstable, and suicides among women and children have increased. Now, we have lost even the economic superpower that Mishima predicted. Our GDP was overtaken by China a long time ago, and now our GDP per capita has been overtaken even by our neighboring country, South Korea. In Japan, compulsory music classes include piano, recorder, and brass band. However, there are no classes on the Koto or Shakuhachi, and many Japanese have never even touched them. At my high school, we happened to have an opportunity to listen to a shakuhachi performance in a concert hall. I still remember the inexplicable feeling of excitement I felt at that time. We, modern Japanese, have forgotten Japanese civilization, are not familiar with Japanese culture, and have been intentionally made to lose our "national identity. A long time ago, the word "international" was popular, but in recent decades it has been replaced by the word "globalism. Probably not many Japanese understand the meaning of this word correctly. What saddens me is that the Japanese themselves do not have a sense of crisis about this fact. If things continue as they are, Western textbooks will say, "Once upon a time, there existed a strange nation called Japan in the Far East. At that time, Japan will be swallowed up by "his country," which has become a major power in Asia, and the Japanese people may have completely disappeared and become a small group of unidentifiable people who have lost their memory.

I'm Japanese. I am very happy to see people enjoy our music.

It's nice and interesting to know that people from so many countries are interested in traditional Edo music. Music has no borders, either in time or distance.🌸🙏🌸

This just hits different. I've always wanted to know more about japanese culture but my country (Ecuador) isnt very open in these aspects. It's almost like the only way to make friends abroad is online. Brains consumed by soccer, politics and gossip tv shows.

7:12 This is the feeling at the time of despair, suffering, and loss, but also about the beauty that still exists and the desperate search for it.

Japan is my biggest dream, I am a huge fan of the culture, the music, everything. This music and it calls me, maybe many lives ago, I had the honor of being Japanese.

I'm not Japanese but I'm fascinated by the culture and music and here I'm... studying the music to improve my productions and beats! Thank you for posting this!

This music is so strange for me. It increase my concentration and relaxes my muscles. I just can explain my feeling as soft and powerful. Enchanting music...

I'll never fully understand the depths of the Japanese soul. Perhaps it's foolish for any foreigner to even try. But I admire it greatly, and I think the world would be a better place if Japan had more influence.

I majored in biomedical engineering as an undergraduate and minored in East Asian and Buddhist art history. I ended up going to graduate school for my masters in biomedical engineering and technology and I have a wonderful job currently working in the biomedical industry field. I always think back though from time to time and recall so many wonderful things that I learned from my asian art history classes. The culture and art was so beautiful and I absolutely loved the history behind it all. I honestly fell in love with it, it grew so much on me, and it seems to be so to this day. I often find myself researching early woodblock prints and hanging scrolls and learning new things about them and the artists that brought them to life. I almost considered switching majors back then. What would I be doing now? I would be throughout China and Japan, learning their art, language, and culture. I’ll make it there someday to see everything firsthand instead of just in textbooks. It’s crazy though that I loved my minor more than my actual major, and I did so much better with my minor than major.

日本の文化が本当に好きなんです

My father was a marine and when I was 6 years old he came back home from Japan and he brought this cassette and I have always loved it

There is something about this music that helps me focus. Maybe because it is a different structure altogether and less predictable if you are not familiar with it, which makes me appreciate it even more.

I’m lucky to have lived in such an amazing and beautiful country as Japan for the first 3 years of my military service. If I had a few words to describe them… Extremely humble and caring people. Obviously not all military is welcomed- especially in Okinawa and some other smaller places, (because of the many awful fucking cases that the military is involved with, much of it being Marines related) but I’m glad that- being in the navy, I got to hear this music as I passed a tea shop, and I decided on a whim to step inside. The overall feel of this shop was homely, yet somber, like a home you hadn’t been to or seen in years, but as you sat and drank your tea/coffee/ whatever, and ate your sashimi- you felt a sense of comfort.

when i was in first frade, in 1985 chicago, my teacher mrs. miasaki would play records with japanese music. this video reminded me, although ive thought about her randomly throughout the decades, and of the records she played. im glad to have had her as my teacher, and hope that her remaining family are all happy and healthy.

As a Turkish, I very love Japan history and Traditional music. I wanna see Samurai Temples. Respect from Turkey

Unique in the world Japanese music is so calming and beautiful. This in contrast to the war like history of Japan shows the yin and yang, and the contrast we meet in life. Thank you. Very pleasant.

Beautiful I feel each individual string

I am Dutch. Always have been fascinated by Edo era music. It brings peace, consolation and happiness at the same time.

I love traditional Japanese music! I can listen to it for hours. And it allows me to focus when I work. Japanese music is very special but it is not sufficiently known and is under-appreciated. I can imagine it becoming the “hot” thing around the world some day - the world needs to zen down a bit. It has become too crazy.

Это как массаж для мозгов, только недавно начала открывать для себя мир японской классической музыки, спасибо большое что есть такие плейлисты❤😆😆

At traditional Japanese restaurant, traditional Japanese inns (it is called Ryokan) you can listen to this music. When I listen to this kind of music, I feel relax and I think I am Japanese.

I'm an Arab interested in Japan culture since I was young I learned the language about a month ago. I hope to visit Kyoto one day. Listening to traditional Japanese music makes me feel nostalgic for something, but I don't know it.💗

There is something very enchanting and mysterious in this kind of music which makes it very appealing, Japanese people should feel proud for their culture.

I love Japanese’s culture, It’s my dream to visit the entire country. 15:12 One piece Wa no kuni

Edo period court culture is beyond fascinating! THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS PERIOD AND COURT LIFE! ! ! !

I know it's a Western cliché that Japan is so clean and minimalist, but this music really reinforces that stereotype in a good way ❤

A lovely selection. Much enjoyed.

今朝から降りだした雪に幽玄な尺八の音色が…

i'm from Indonesia, love to hear this and it so relaxing that can help me sleep

There is something beautiful in Japanese music, a little bit o sorrow and mystery, yet it is so calming

江戸時代にはこういうのだけじゃなくて、太鼓も組み合わせた音楽とかもいろいろあったよ

Fascinated about the music and the culture it his beautiful and the people

I feel like this music understands me.

it is so mysterious, and sad, and kind of scary at some moments. I love this music.

This music is so beautiful and unique, so very different from the western music I'm used to hear. I mean, classical music is wonderful but hearing Japanese classical music is like traveling to another world with to many different contrast and new sounds.

I'm Puerto Rican and I always read and search about the japanese culture. Since I was a kid I always love all that.

Love from Algeria. I used to listen to this music when I'm stressed. This help me a lot🤍

i love traditional japanese music so much! when i hear the sound of koto, shamisen or shakuhachi i feel like i was in another dimension

Much love and respect to Japan and its culture.

Ever since i started learning japanese, i began to dig deeper and deeper into the japanese culture. From the music and history to the arts, Japanese culture has been my overall favorite thing i've ever tapped in on.

To all my Japanese friends, my dad who was in the Japanese occupation liked the the people there. They were so polite and he,as a farmer's boy appreciated that; all farmer's are polite. He loved their culture and brought back many things to the United States. Porcelain and a very exquisite doll of the a Samuria in full court regalia. I was taught to respect the Japanese and their dicendance in my town of Santa Maria California. Nisai. I went to the Aloha market their many times own by them. I loved Japanese music since ten years old

My dad had travelled the world for some two years in his youth (in the 1980s) and a part of his journey was spent in Japan. He always told me how much he enjoyed his time there and it’s one of the few countries he wanted to visit again (though he never did). Most Japanese he met and spent some time with back then was because of his interest in the traditional music, he still has a few photos of when they had invited him to a tea ceremony and played some music afterwards, despite barely being able to talk to each other due to very limited English skills on both sides (we’re European). Music (and art in general) has this wonderful ability to connect people beyond language. I’m glad i got to grow up in a very musical family who taught me (mainly thanks to my dad’s experiences from visiting nations before mass tourism) to not only appreciate classical but also foreign traditional music from a very young age. Japanese arts and culture have always been among the ones i cherish the most.

I love it so much, thank you for posting ❤️ Edo period and its culture is unique.

i am reading vagabond a manga about musashi's life and this is from the right period and gives so much more depth to the story . and now that i have discovered this music i listen to it even outside of reading vagabond it is so beautiful.

A Bulgarian fan here. Old Japanese culture is fascinating.

Love the sound of the koto makes me feel very nostalgic.

thank you for this

寝る時にめっちゃ良いです。投稿ありがとうございます！🥰💗

Кагда мне было 17 лет я мечтал быть япоцам.🤣 . Занемался каратэ по книгам. Тогда небыло интернета я искал книги. Люблю японские фильмы и музыку. 🙏🇰🇿

I'm Thai. I feel calm down. 😇

This is easily the best high-quality japanese music compilation on YT

This is such a lovely piece

the frugality, discipline and poetry in the most high sense

This sound is incredible. Really puts you there. What an amazing culture and history.

Such beautiful music. 😌😌

I like to read the Natsume Sóseki book "Wagahai wa neko de aru" listening at this music, because it belongs to de same period!

I spent time in Japan back in the 1970s and grew to love the music. Fortunately, I had a very good Japanese friend to explain the many nuances to me both in the music and culture in general. I wish I could go back to that time.

I've liked this type of music as background music since I was a kid playing Samurai Shodown. Thanks for posting!

This is EXACTLY the right sound I have been hunting for!!! Perfect to have on in the background while I make a pagoda made from LEGO 😁

This is my favorite video/song thingy ever I come back to this every single night to sleep ugh it’s so beautiful

Thank you for such awesome music.

This is wonderful. It soothes me and I love it!

This tremendously helps me calm so much. I felt so at ease.

i am korean but i like these songs i love all asian music

The music is wonderful. To me there seems to be a haunting spirit of exile and spiritual lonliness about it but this spirit is very beautiful. It is an enormous privilege to be able to listen to this.

I love Japan, it's folklore and history are always living me amazed of how amazing and bloody centuries they went through

I m Japanese sansei generation. I love this music. Tottemo sukidesu. Arigato ❤

Очень трогательная и красивая музыка. Мне нравится, как дисгармоничные элементы вплетаются в мелодию совершенно естественно и не рушат общую гармонию. Словно песня ветра или крик журавля. Кажется, авторы эпохи Эдо находили вдохновение в мотивах родной природы.

I absolutely adore this style of music. I listen to it alot!

Hypnotic. I enjoy the silences as much as the notes themselves...

Japan has always been such a uniquely fascinating place that I think was passed on mainly from my dad. This has also kind of spiked an interest in their car culture since I had no clue about anything mildly related to Japanese cars at all.

fantastico, I love the Edo period. with this I feel living in that time..... 本当にありがとうございました

This is the most beautiful music. Thank you for sharing it!

I just started listening to traditional Japanese music and I find it very relaxing.

this is so good for studying, it's not invasive and still keeps your mind from wandering

The most beautiful form of impermanence ... like a snowfall

i love this kind of music, its really relaxing. I went to japan once and i hope i'll be able to go back one day. Cheers from belgium.

I love this music! And this period, both of them are so amazing.

It's absolutely beautiful.

This music calms down my anxiety, brings pace to my soul. Thanks Japan for this!

I respect music artforms and cultures brought different forms of expression and admirer of samurai past and Japanese history.☯️

The talent of the musicians is clear in this lovely recording! Thank you for this music! It helps me focus. :)