Utagi Kengyo

Japanese: 歌木検校 - うたぎけんぎょう

A blind musician in the mid-Edo period. His capital name was Fusaichi. He was a student of Yoshikawa Kengyo, a koto performer of the Yatsuhashi school in Osaka. He became a kengyo in 1756. By the time of Tenmei (81-89), he had composed many new-style hagauta pieces of jiuta. These became the model for subsequent haiku-style or joruri-style hagauta. In September 1760, his composition "Kakurenbo" (Hide and Seed) became popular as a new type of piece, and even led to the creation of alternative lyrics. Many of his compositions, such as "Tsuyu no Cho" (Letter to the Butterfly of the Dew), "Tsuufu Kami" (God Who Passes Through), and "Na no Ha" (Nabe Leaves), are representative hagauta pieces that are still performed today.

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Japanese:

江戸時代中期の盲人の音楽家。都名 (いちな) は房一 (ふさいち) 。大坂の八橋流の箏曲家佳川検校の門下。宝暦6 (1756) 年検校となる。天明 (81～89) 頃までに，新傾向の地歌の端歌を多数作曲。その後の俳諧調または浄瑠璃調の端歌の規範となった。宝暦 10 (60) 年9月には，その作曲による『かくれんぼ』が新機軸のものとして流行，替歌まで作られるにいたったほか，『露の蝶』『通ふ神』『菜の葉』など地歌の端歌の代表曲として現在でも演奏されているものが多い。

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