GOJINJO-DAIKO: Japanese musical instrument
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The gojinjo-daiko is drum from Japan that has been selected
as part of Wajima City’s cultural heritage in 1961 and an Ishikawa Prefecture’s
intangible cultural
heritage in
1963.
Playing this musical instrument is restricted to residents
of Nafune, a small village in Wajima
City, where approximately 250 people reside, making it scarce to view a live
drum performance.
The origin of this musical instrument has been traced back
to the year 1577, when the General, Uesugi Kenshin attacked Noto, Ishikawa.
Because of the fact that the local people of that region had no single weapon,
they resisted by playing war drum and wore fierce looking devil masks, having
seaweed on their head in a bid to scare their enemies off. The low tune of
drums linked with the rumbling of the earth and made Uesugi Keshin and his men
to retreat.
