Traditional Japanese music

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Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. 'Japanese music') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from which the others were derived.^{[1][failed verification]} Outside of ethnomusicology, however, hōgaku usually refers to Japanese music from around the 17th to the mid-19th century.^[2] Within this framework, there are three types of traditional music in Japan: theatrical, court music, and instrumental.