Five-tiered kinuta

Japanese: 五段砧 - ごだんぎぬた

The title of a koto piece. Composed by Mitsusaki Kengyo. It is composed for two kotos, a high-pitched kaede in Honkumoi-choshi and a low-pitched honte in Hira-choshi. The whole piece is an instrumental piece consisting of five sections (dan), and is one of the Kinutamono. Before the Kinuta, "Sandanjishi" (a sangen piece composed by Sayama Kengyo) is sometimes transferred to the koto, and its song and tegoto sections are added as an introduction, and in the Yamada school, a post-uta is also added. The melody of the low-pitched Hira-choshi is based on "Kinuta" (the original song of the Yamada school's "Yondan Kinuta"), which is said to have been composed by Ikuta Kengyo, and the first half of the fifth section is taken from the fifth section of "Rokudan no shado". The melody of the version currently performed varies slightly depending on the school.

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Japanese:

箏曲の曲名。光崎検校作曲。本雲井調子の高音替手と，平調子の低音本手の2面の箏で合奏するように作曲されている。全曲が5つの部分 (段) から成る器楽曲で，砧物の一つ。砧の前に『三段獅子』 (佐山検校作曲の三弦曲) を箏曲に移して，その歌と手事の部分を前奏としてつけることがあり，また，山田流では，後歌もつけることがある。低音の平調子の旋律は，生田検校作曲と伝えられる『砧』 (山田流の『四段砧』の原曲) に基づいて作られたもので，第5段目の前半は『六段の調』の第5段からとられている。現在演奏されるものは，流派によってその旋律に若干の相違がある。

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