Minezaki Kōtō

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Minezaki Kōtō ( Japanese 峰 崎 勾当 ) was a Japanese Shamisen composer and player who worked in Osaka between 1781 and 1801 .

Life

Minezaki Kōtō was a student of Toyoga Kengyō ( 豊 賀 検 校 ; 1743–1785), where kengyō was the highest honorary title for a blind court musician and kōtō was two levels below. On the occasion of his death he wrote the piece Sodegōro. Minezaki was active in the genre of Jiuta , music for Shamisen that was performed by blind musicians in the Kyōto- Osaka area . He is known for his Hauta, Jiuta with a strong emphasis on vocal melodies, but above all he turned the tegotomono, which originally functioned as short intermezzi, into independent long works and helped them to become an independent form of music, which is the most common Jiuta form today.

Echigo-jishi was founded in 1811 by Kineya Rokuzaemon IX. Musically quoted in his nagauta ( Kabuki piece of music) of the same name , which was again used by Giacomo Puccini in his opera Madama Butterfly .

Work (selection)

Hauta:

  • Yuki ( 雪 , "snow") (1782)
  • Sodegōro ( 袖 香爐 , "sleeve incense burner") (1785)
  • Kosu no to ( 小 簾 の 戸 , "House with the small bamboo curtain")
  • Daibutsu ( 大 仏 , "great Buddha")
  • Hana no tabi ( 花 の 旅 , "flower journey")
  • Bessekai ( 別 世界 , "another world")

Tegotomono:

  • Zangetsu ( 残月 , "morning moon ") (1792)
  • Ume no tsuki ( 梅 の 月 , "plum moon")
  • Azuma-jishi ( 吾 妻 獅子 / 東 獅子 , " East Japan - Lion Dance ") (1797)
  • Echigo-jishi ( 越 後 獅子 , " Echigo lion dance") (around 1788)
  • Arima-jishi ( 有 馬 獅子 , " Arima lion dance")
  • Tamatsubaki ( 玉 椿 , "camellia")
  • Okina ( 翁 , "old man")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 平 山 け い 子 : 峰 崎 勾当 . In: 日本 大 百科全書 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 18, 2016 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ a b c 大 貫 紀 子 : 峰 崎 勾当 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 19, 2016 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b Innovating Musical Tradition in Japan: Negotiating Transmission, Identity, and Creativity in the Sawai Koto School . ProQuest, 2007, ISBN 978-0-549-50670-6 , pp. 74 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Alison Tokita, David W. Hughes: The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music . Ashgate Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-5699-9 , pp. 192 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Bernd Clausen: The Hare in the Moon: Study of Japanese Music in Japanese Music Classes . LIT Verlag Münster, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1675-9 , pp. 137/138 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Osamu Yamaguchi: Contacts of different cultures as observed in the early 19th century. (No longer available online.) Centro Studi Darśana, January 31, 2013, archived from the original on June 19, 2016 ; accessed on June 19, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.centrostudiorientaliroma.net
personal data
SURNAME Minezaki Kōtō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 峰 崎 勾当 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese composer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 19th century