About Hayashi
Hayashi is a music genre. It is usually classed as a form of traditional Japanese music.
From Wikipedia
A hayashi (囃子) is a group of performers who provide musical accompaniment for Japanese Nō or kabuki theatre, yose (寄席) performances of rakugo, or a festival.
In Nō, the hayashi sit along the rear of the stage, facing the audience and fully visible. A distinct and separate group of performers from the chorus, they are purely instrumentalists; the type of instruments featured and the order in which they sit on stage follow established practices. The leftmost performer plays a small taiko, set on a stand before him, with two drumsticks. To his right is the ōtsuzumi hip drum, followed by the kotsuzumi shoulder drum, and the Noh flute (nōkan or simply fue).
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Hayashi is a music genre. It is usually classed as a form of traditional Japanese music.