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  "name": "Japanese Classical Music",
  "description": "Classical music of Japan.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/japanese-classical-music/",
  "parent": "East Asian Classical Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
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      "name": "Gagaku",
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    {
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    },
    {
      "name": "Heikyoku",
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      "description": "Semi-classical bardic tradition in Japan analogous to the troubadour music of medieval Europe.",
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      "name": "Heikyoku",
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    {
      "name": "Heikyoku",
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      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
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    {
      "name": "Honkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/honkyoku/",
      "description": "Japanese Classical Music performed solo on a bamboo flute shakuhachi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Honkyoku",
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      "description": "Japanese Classical Music performed solo on a bamboo flute shakuhachi.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
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    {
      "name": "Honkyoku",
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      "description": "Japanese Classical Music performed solo on a bamboo flute shakuhachi.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jiuta",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/jiuta/",
      "description": "Originally created by solo performers singing and playing shamisen, but since the late 18th century increasingly often performed by sankyoku ensembles (shamisen, koto and shakuhachi or kokyu).",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jiuta",
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      "description": "Originally created by solo performers singing and playing shamisen, but since the late 18th century increasingly often performed by sankyoku ensembles (shamisen, koto and shakuhachi or kokyu).",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jiuta",
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      "description": "Originally created by solo performers singing and playing shamisen, but since the late 18th century increasingly often performed by sankyoku ensembles (shamisen, koto and shakuhachi or kokyu).",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jōruri",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/joruri/",
      "description": "Consists of a singing narrator (tayū) with shamisen accompaniment.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jōruri",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/joruri/",
      "description": "Consists of a singing narrator (tayū) with shamisen accompaniment.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jōruri",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/joruri/",
      "description": "Consists of a singing narrator (tayū) with shamisen accompaniment.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Meiji shinkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/meiji-shinkyoku/",
      "description": "Meiji-era compositions, using a distinctive, brighter scale, usually performed with two kotos.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Meiji shinkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/meiji-shinkyoku/",
      "description": "Meiji-era compositions, using a distinctive, brighter scale, usually performed with two kotos.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Meiji shinkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/meiji-shinkyoku/",
      "description": "Meiji-era compositions, using a distinctive, brighter scale, usually performed with two kotos.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nagauta",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nagauta/",
      "description": "Japanese Classical Music used in Kabuki, a form of theatre oriented to dance-drama.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nagauta",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nagauta/",
      "description": "Japanese Classical Music used in Kabuki, a form of theatre oriented to dance-drama.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nagauta",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/nagauta/",
      "description": "Japanese Classical Music used in Kabuki, a form of theatre oriented to dance-drama.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Noh",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/noh/",
      "description": "Played by an hayashi ensemble, consisting of a fue (flute), a kotsuzumi (shoulder drum), a ōtsuzumi (hip drum), and a taiko (stick drum).",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Noh",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/noh/",
      "description": "Played by an hayashi ensemble, consisting of a fue (flute), a kotsuzumi (shoulder drum), a ōtsuzumi (hip drum), and a taiko (stick drum).",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Noh",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/noh/",
      "description": "Played by an hayashi ensemble, consisting of a fue (flute), a kotsuzumi (shoulder drum), a ōtsuzumi (hip drum), and a taiko (stick drum).",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shōmyō",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shomyo/",
      "description": "Japanese Buddhist chant that utilizes the yō scale.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shōmyō",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shomyo/",
      "description": "Japanese Buddhist chant that utilizes the yō scale.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shōmyō",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shomyo/",
      "description": "Japanese Buddhist chant that utilizes the yō scale.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sōkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sokyoku/",
      "description": "Gained popularity during the Edo period, played with a koto or a guzheng and sometimes accompanied by shamisen and/or shakuhachi.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sōkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sokyoku/",
      "description": "Gained popularity during the Edo period, played with a koto or a guzheng and sometimes accompanied by shamisen and/or shakuhachi.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sōkyoku",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/sokyoku/",
      "description": "Gained popularity during the Edo period, played with a koto or a guzheng and sometimes accompanied by shamisen and/or shakuhachi.",
      "level": "sub-5",
      "parent": "Japanese Classical Music"
    }
  ]
}