Jiuta

Music genre

Jiuta (地歌/地唄/ぢうた) is a style of traditional Japanese music. In the Edo period (1603–1867), pieces in the jiuta style were played on the shamisen, and were mostly regional to Kamigata. The name jiuta means 'song' (歌, uta) of 'a place' or 'a region' (地, ji) (Kamigata in this instance), and suggests "not a song from Edo".