The Satsuma clan would often play 'Rujigaku (lit. route music)' for people along the road to Edo and 'Uzagaku (lit. seated music)' for important people in the Edo shogunate below the status of Shogun as a show of power.
薩摩藩は、江戸までの街道ぞいの人々に「路次楽」を聴かせ、将軍以下の江戸幕府の要人たちに「御座楽」の演奏を聴かせることで、自藩の支配力を顕示した。