小沢昭一 ‎– 日本の放浪芸 = Wanderers Performing Arts In Japan

Label: Victor ‎– SJX-2051～57-M
Series: ドキュメント = Document – , 日本の放浪芸 – 1.
Format: 7 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Mono
Box Set, Clothed Box
Box Set, Cardboard Outside Box
Country: Japan
Released: 1971
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Min'yō, Field Recording, Sound Art, Monolog, Sermon

Monster 7LP boxset of wandering field recordings capturing various folk practices occuring in the everyday lives of Japanese towns post world war two.  Street level ethnographic documentation!!!!  With hefty book.  Strongly TIPPED (NM)

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Staggering aural document spread over a seven LP set, housed in a thicker than life cloth bound heavy textured box set. This copy comes complete with heavy detailed book. Staggering aural document spread over a seven LP set, housed in a thicker than life cloth bound heavy textured box set that also houses a 60 paged detailed booklet filled with a massive amount of archival pictures. Released in 1971. A real sub-cultural freak show is not to be found in cosmopolitan urban jungles but instead is buried deep within the hinterland of agricultural hamlets and rural corner towns where 20th century civilization has not yet deposited its poisoned all consuming Westernized germs. This aural document documents a Japan that is now almost completely extinct. The bulk of the recordings was made after the end of WWII and takes you behind closed sliding doors of farmers homes where local priest perform exorcism rites to secure a good harvest, guides you past circus freak show theatres were midgets, snake charmers, monkey jugglers, old toothless lady non-syllabic ramblings that sound like a trance inducing mantra and other depraved outcasts of society are put on display, ghost-callers who communicated with the world of the spirits through song and shamisen strummings. The box is filled with rural oddities, shamanistic induced music recordings, spoken word intersections, filed recordings and so much more. This was the real underground Japan, a sonic slab of historical recordings that you didn’t even knew existed in the first place. This box (one in a series of 6) was released in 1971 and mainly sold to libraries and other governmental institutions. It had no commercial potential whatsoever so it is not surprising that copies barely made it on the streets. Here you have a stone cold mint copy of such a set, a 7 LP box filled with voices from a distant and long gone past. Extremely rare, especially in such pristine condition and the booklet present. One of the best ethnological releases ever!! 
Tracklist
Disc 1 SJX-2051 祝う芸 万歳さまざま = Celebration Arts / Various Style Of Banzai
A1 尾張(知多)万歳(愛知)=御殿万歳/門付の万歳
A2 三河(西尾)万歳(愛知)=御殿万歳
A3 会津万歳(福島)=年始万歳
A4 秋田(横手)万歳(秋田)=御門万歳/(付)ひとり万歳
B1 越前(野大坪)万歳(福井)=お家万歳/寿万歳/木やり万歳
B2 加賀万歳(石川)=三番叟/お福の嫁入
B3 伊予(風早)万歳(愛媛)=柱ぞろえ
B4 伊六万歳(愛知)=御殿万歳/万歳芝居(忠臣蔵三代目)/ こうこうづくし
B5 豊後万歳(大分)
Disc 2 SJX-2052 祝う芸 その他の祝福芸 = Celebration Arts / Other Celebration Arts
A1 はこまわし彩訪(徳島)
A2 はこまわし(徳島)=荒神ばらい/三番叟まわし/えびすまわし
B1 大黒舞(徳島・宮城・山形・島根)
B2 門付芸採訪(香川)=お福さん/はりこま
B3 門付芸採訪(徳島)=せきぞろ/すったら坊主
B4 福俵(山口)
B5 春田打(山形)
B6 春駒(新潟)=さまよ踊り/めでた踊り
Disc 3 SJX-2053 A-Side 説く芸と話す芸 絵解の系譜 = Explain Arts And Talking Arts / Genealogy Of Picture Deciphering
A1 絵解(和歌山・神奈川・三重・奈良・長野)=安珍清姫(道成寺)/ 小栗判官照手姫(遊行寺)/冥途の旅日記(教善寺)/当麻曼陀羅(当麻寺)/ 刈藁石童丸(往生寺)
A2 のぞきからくり(大阪)=不如帰/地獄極楽
A3 錦影絵採訪(大阪)
A4 紙芝居(静岡)(付)立絵(東京)
Disc 3 SJX-2053 B-Side 説く芸と話す芸 舌耕芸 = Explain Arts And Talking Arts / Preaching, Lecture Arts
B1 話す芸いろいろ(京都・奈良・山形)=大仙院庭園説明/大峰山山伏唱文/ 羽黒山阿弥陀讃
B2 説教(愛知)
B3 流しにわか(大阪)
B4 入れこみ噺(大阪)= 東の旅
B5 修羅場講釈(東京)=太閤記・信長の最期
Disc 4 SJX-2054 語る芸 盲人の芸 = Talking Arts / Blind Man's Arts
A1 ごぜ彩訪(新潟)=門付唄/祭文松坂葛の葉の子別れ
A2 おく浄瑠璃(岩手)=牛若丸東下り/餅合戦
A3 早物語(山形)
A4 いたこ採訪(青森)=猿賀神社いたこ口寄せ風景/ おしら祭文(せんだん栗毛)/梓みこ
B1 肥後琵琶(熊本)天竜川/ 荒神ばらい(みそぎばら、六根ばらい、般若心経、岩戸びらき)玉代姫一代記/ 餅酒合戦/チャリ
Disc 5 SJX-2055 語る芸 浪花節の源流 = Talking Arts / Roots Of Rōkyoku Naniwa-Bushi
A1 浪花節(大阪)=木津勘助
A2 浮かれ節(京都)=石見重太郎
A3 五色軍談(新潟)=越後伝吉
A4 浪花節むかしばなし(大阪)
A5 デロレン祭文(山形)=柳生二蓋笠/義士外伝
B1 江州音頭(滋賀)=座敷音頭(孝子まよいの印籠)
B2 阿呆陀羅経(大阪・愛知)SPレコードより/ 伊六万歳(阿呆陀羅経、東海道づくし)
B3 なみだ経(愛知)
B4 ほめら採訪(徳島)
Disc 6 SJX-2056 商う芸 香具師の芸 = Street Vender's Sales Talk Arts / Mouth Arts Caustic Words Sales Arts Freak Show Tipster Horse-race Handicapper
A1 東寺境内風景(京都)=端布や/家相/へびや
A2 見世物小屋呼び込み(岐阜・静岡)吸血女/けい娘
A3 洋服たたき売り(大阪)
A4 天王寺境内風景(大阪)=新案鍋売り/もぐさ売り/行者
B1 縁日風景(東京)=易者/手品/毛布や/バナナや/茶碗や
B2 競馬・競輪予想屋(東京・兵庫・千葉)
B3 演歌採訪(東京)スカラソング/おどろきの世界/郭日記/金色夜叉
Disc 7 SJX-2057 流す芸 漂白の芸能 = Nagashi Arts / Nagashi Shamisen Nagashi Monkey Showman Komusō Wandering Zen Priest With Bamboo Flute
A1 音曲流し(徳島)=棚のへちま
A2 声色屋(東京)=鴈次郎/勘三郎/沢正
A3 立琴流し(福岡)=あんこ可愛や/無情の夢
A4 円山公園花見風景(京都)=手踊り/太鼓流し/三味線流し/四ツ竹/尺八 法界屋(三味線・立琴)
A5 角兵衛獅子(新潟)
A6 願人節宮城
A7 まかしょ(神奈川)
A8 厄はらい(茨城)
A9 太神楽(大阪)
B1 飴屋採訪(茨城=流し唄/端もの(春のはじめ)/段もの(石川五右衛門)
B2 飴売り唄(大阪)
B3 金多豆蔵人形芝居(青森)
B4 猿まわし(大阪)まま子いじめ/金色夜叉
B5 猿まわし採訪(山口)
B6 三曲万歳(愛知)門付け/あいならえ
B7 虚無僧(京都)