"Kyobouki" - Kyobouki

…In the Tang Dynasty teaching fang, male musicians transferred from the Taichang Temple were mainly involved in instrumental music, and some performed small plays and acrobatics, but the most important were the female official slave musicians who sang and danced. The Tang Dynasty teaching fang was divided into four types: the Nei Ren (frontal people), who were the most skilled in the art of sex, the Shudanka (playing the lute) who were of good social standing and originally specialized in string instruments such as the biwa, and the court ladies and miscellaneous women (apprentices). …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…唐朝教坊には，太常寺より転属してきた男性楽人がおもに器楽にたずさわり，小劇や演芸曲芸をするものもいたが，重要なのは歌舞を演じる官奴の女性楽人であった。唐，崔令欽（さいれいきん）の《教坊記》は4種類に分けられている。色芸最もすぐれた内人(前頭人)，琵琶など弦楽器を本来専業とする良民出身の搊弾家（しゆうだんか），それに宮人と雑婦女(見習い)である。…

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