Description Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese Music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold M ller, published in Yokohama in a series from 1874 to 1876, have been nEarly forgotten and marginalized even in historical research on the courtly gagaku traditions they focus upon.
It situates the essay-series historically in the ligh.
This study with full translation into both English and Japanese illuminates and reassesses M ller\'s pioneering contribution.
Description Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese Music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold M ller, published in Yokohama in a series from 1874 to 1876, have been nEarly forgotten and marginalized even in historical research on the courtly gagaku traditions they focus upon