Northern faction

...If we consider jiuta in the narrow sense to be music that has not been adapted for koto, or music that has been arranged for koto but has a strong emphasis on shamisen, then most of the performers are from Osaka. Among the performers of the Kiku-suji lineage, also known as the northern school, whose surnames contain the character 'kiku' (chrysanthemum), Kikuhara Hatsuko (1899-), daughter of Kikuhara Kotoji, and among the performers of the Tomi-suji lineage, whose surnames contain the character 'tomi' (tomisuji), whose surnames contain the character 'tomi' (tomisuji), Tomizaki Harunobu, who moved to Tokyo, and his student Toyama Kiyokoto (1913-), both of whom were designated Living National Treasures. Kyushu also had its own unique traditions, and many of them focused on developing the technique of the shamisen, but after Nagatani Yukiteru and his student Kawase Satoko (1873-1957) moved to Tokyo in the Meiji period, the majority of Ikuta-ryu koto performers in Tokyo were also Kyushu-based jiuta shamisen performers.

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to the "Northern Faction" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…箏曲化されていない楽曲，あるいは箏の編曲はあっても，三味線の比重の強い楽曲を，狭義の地歌とした場合には，その伝承者は大阪に多いことになる。北派ともいわれる菊の字を姓に含む菊筋の演奏家では，菊原琴治の娘の菊原初子(1899‐　)，南派の富の字を姓に含む富筋の演奏家では，東京に進出した富崎春昇とその門下の富山清琴(1913‐　)が，いずれも人間国宝に指定された。　別に九州にも独自の伝承が行われ，とくに三味線の技巧的発達をくふうするものが多かったが，明治以降に，長谷幸輝（ながたにゆきてる）や，その門下の川瀬里子(1873‐1957)などが東京に移住してからは，東京の生田流箏曲家は，この九州系の地歌三味線家でもある者が主流を占めるに至った。…

※「北派」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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