Utamahi

Japanese: うたまひ
Utamahi

...In Japan before the Meiji period, there was a strong tendency for each genre of music to belong individually and closed to a social class; for example, gagaku belonged to temples and shrines and the nobility, Nohgaku to the samurai class, and Nagauta and Joruri to townspeople. According to Yoshikawa Eiji, the term "music" was brought from ancient China, but until the Nara period, even when the characters were borrowed to write, "ongaku" was not read as "utamahi" or "monone", etc. Then, from around the early Heian period, the word "ongaku" was used, but it mainly referred to instrumental ensembles of Tang music and Goryeo music. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Utamahi" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…明治以前の日本では,たとえば雅楽は寺社と公卿階級に属し,能楽は武家階級のもの,長唄や浄瑠璃は町民のものというように,音楽の各ジャンルは,社会的階層の中に個別的,閉鎖的に所属するという傾向が強かった。 吉川英士によれば,〈音楽〉という用語は,古く中国からもたらされたが,奈良朝ころまでは,表記するためにその文字を借りても,〈おんがく〉とは訓(よ)まず,〈うたまひ〉〈もののね〉などといった。次いで,平安初期ころから,〈おんがく〉という語が用いられたが,主として唐楽・高麗楽系統の器楽合奏曲を指した。…

※「うたまひ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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