Furthermore, Yumiya no Tachiai is a Noh song with a long and honorable history that was certainly played in the Utaizome-shiki (a New Year's ceremony for the first Noh singing of the year in the home of a shogun) of the Bakufu (the Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) during the Edo Period. |
なお、弓矢立合は江戸時代に幕府の謡初式でかならず演じられた由緒ある曲である。 |