Product Description
The excellent Umekichi sings and plays the shamisen and has helped to make 'nagauta' - traditional style song, cool again in Japan. Young, beautiful and talented, she seems to be everyone's image of what a geisha should be, both home and abroad, a point not lost on her record company. She performs Edo style entertainment, the type popular in Japan before Westernization. This live DVD was filmed in Tokyo with Umekichi singing solo with shamisen and dancing,and together with a band. 16 tracks, 70 minutes with extra film of rehearsal and backstage.
