During the late Edo period, when reading Chinese poetry without comprehending, they uniquely melodized it in some of the private schools in house or the hanko (a domain school), which is the direct origin of the present-day shigin.
江戸時代後期、一部の私塾や藩校において漢詩を素読する際に独特の節を付すことが行われたのが、今日の詩吟の直接のルーツである。