Satoko Kawase

Japanese: 川瀬里子 - かわせさとこ

Born: September 3, 1873 in Kumamoto
[Died] August 15, 1957. Tokyo Jiuta Koto performer. Maiden name Nakayama. She became blind at the age of four, and at the age of six, she became a disciple of Hase Koki, who was known as a master of Kyushu-style Jiuta Sangen (→ Sangen, Shamisen). She was known as one of the three great Hase students, along with Fukuda Eika I and Kitani Toshie. She moved to Tokyo around 1900 and studied Koto Kumiuta with Yoshida Hisako, who was from Nagoya. In 1902, she returned to Tokyo and began teaching Jiuta and Sokyoku. In 1904, she married Kawase Junsuke I, a Kinko-ryu shakuhachi performer. She invited her teacher Hase Koki to Tokyo and worked hard to spread Kyushu-style arts in Tokyo. With the help of a sangen master, she improved the jiuta sangen, which is the most popular today, by inclining the pigeon chest part close to the resonator body so that it could be played using the kansho up to the high range. In addition, the tip of the bachi was made wider than that of the Tsuyama bachi invented by Tsuyama Kengyo I of Osaka during the Bunka era (1804-18), and the lead piece (→ piece) was also improved. In 1947, he founded the Rishinkai. He trained many excellent students, including Ota Satoko, Abe Keiko, Inoue Michiko, Yagi Keiji, and Kawase Hakushu.

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Japanese:

[生]1873.9.3. 熊本
[没]1957.8.15. 東京
地歌箏曲家。旧姓中山。4歳で失明し，6歳のとき九州系地歌三弦（→三弦，三味線）の名手として知られた長谷幸輝に入門。1世福田栄香，木谷寿恵らとともに長谷門下の三羽烏と呼ばれた。1900年頃上京し，名古屋系の吉田久子に箏組歌を学ぶ。1902年に再上京して，地歌，箏曲を教え始めた。1904年琴古流尺八家の 1世川瀬順輔に嫁ぐ。師の長谷幸輝を東京に呼び，九州系の芸を東京に広めることに尽力した。また三弦師の協力のもとに，高音域まで勘所を使って演奏ができるように，鳩胸の部分が共鳴胴の真近くまで迫って傾斜する，今日最も普及している地歌三弦に改良した。また撥も文化年間（1804～18）頃大坂の 1世津山検校が考案した津山撥より，さらに先端の開きを大きくし，鉛駒（→駒）にも改良を加えた。1947年里心会を結成。太田里子，阿部桂子，井上道子，矢木敬二，川瀬白秋ら優れた弟子を育てた。

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