Editing Meiji era (section)

====Christian music====
Christian missions also became an important way for spreading Western-style music in Meiji era.

In the sixteenth century Portuguese missionaries introduced the first Western-style music to Japan: sacred choral music, music for organ, flute, harp, trumpet, violin, alto, double bass. However, soon [[Christianity]], along with its institutions, was banned. In the Meiji era, the ban of Christianity was lifted. Thus, [[Catholics|Catholic]], [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox]] and [[Protestants|Protestant]] missionaries started actively preaching, and the introduction of sacred music became an integral part of their activities.

The Orthodox mission introduced traditional choral music in Japan. The great impact in the choral music development was made by Ukrainian musicians: conductors [[Yakov Tikhai]] (served in the Orthodox mission from 1874 to 1886) and Dmytro Livovsky (served in the Orthodox mission from 1880 to 1921). They organized the first traditional choirs in [[Holy Resurrection Cathedral]] in [[Tokyo]] (known as Nikolai-do), taught music in [[Tokyo Union Theological Seminary|Tokyo Theological Seminary]], completed and published the first musical score collections, and educated the first Japanese choir conductors and music teachers.{{citation needed |date=September 2023}} Among them are Roman Chiba, Alexey Obara, Innokentiy Kisu, Yakov Maedako, Petr Tokairin, Ioan Nakashima, Moisei Kawamura, Ioan Owata, Pavel Isiya, Vasiliy Takeda, Andrey Abe, Alexandr Komagai, Fedor Minato, Alexey Sawabe, Luka Orit.

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