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Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a ****anese
musician and
composer from Kyoto. The name
kengyō is an
honorary title given to
highly skilled blind...
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Kengyo (検校), a
blind official often engaged in music,
apparently started to
compose nagauta in Edo. The
famous composers are Asari-
kengyo and Sayama-Kengyo...
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years old, and
started his
study in koto
under the
guidance of
Nakajima Kengyo II,
dedicating the rest of his life to the instrument. In 1907 he moved...
- or regular) is a
tuning scale adapted from
shamisen music by
Yatsuhashi Kengyō for
tuning of the koto. "The hirajoshi, kumoijoshi, and
kokinjoshi 'scales'...
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abbreviated as Rokudan, ****anese: 六段, lit. 'six columns') is one of
Yatsuhashi Kengyō’s (1614–1685)
famous pieces. It was
originally a sōkyoku (****anese: 箏曲, lit...
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Yatsuhashi comes from a
scene in the Tale of Ise or from the
musician Yatsuhashi Kengyo.
Yatsuhashi is a po****r
souvenir today, and
according to a
survey conducted...
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Akashi Kakuichi (明石 覚一, 1299 – 10
August 1371) also
known as
Akashi Kengyō (明石検校) was a ****anese
Buddhist monk of the
early Muromachi period of ****anese...
- hiragana: いんせん) is a
tuning scale adapted from
shamisen music by
Yatsuhashi Kengyō for
tuning of the koto. It only
differs from the
hirajoshi scale by one...
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meditative rituals, and
ritual languages;
distinct from the
exoteric (
kengyō, 顕経) schools. Mikkyō is
descended most
recently from the
Chinese Tangmi...
- structured. The
primary ranks,
known as mōkan (盲官,
blind officers), were
Kengyō (検校) (the highest), then Bettō (別当), Kōtō (勾当), and Zatō (座頭);
these were...
