Tougi Tetteki - Tougi Tetteki

Japanese: 東儀鉄笛 - とうぎ・てってき

Year of death: February 4, 1925
Year of birth: 16th June 1869 (24th July 1869)
A musician and theater artist from the Meiji and Taisho periods. His real name was Togi Sueyoshi, a musician at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka. In 1870, he moved to Tokyo with his father. He began serving at the Imperial Court in 1889, learning and performing gagaku and European music, and worked there until 1905. During that time, he studied literature at the Tokyo Senmon Gakko (Waseda University) and the German Studies Association School (Dokkyo University). Having absorbed ancient ethnic culture and modern Western culture, his interest shifted to theater. From around 1900, he was active in the Recitation Method Research Society and the Eifu-kai, which led him to join Shoyo Tsubouchi's Literary Arts Association, where he played Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice." His acting was described as bold and unconventional, with a freshness that was unconventional. In 1904, he composed the opera "Tokoyami." He also entered the world of opera. In October 1905, on the 25th anniversary of the founding of Waseda University, he composed the school song "Miyako no Seihoku." The lively melody was a pioneer in the composition of school and dormitory songs. He also participated in the new school theater of Ii Yoho, Kawai Takeo, and Kitamura Rokuro, playing the role of Lieutenant General Kataoka in "Hototogisu", and in 1922 he was active in new theater in Osaka, and the following year he returned to Tokyo and took charge of directing at the New Theater Research Institute. In his later years he was absorbed in the study of Japanese music history, and from 1910 he serialized "Considerations on Japanese Music History" in the magazine "Ongakukai". Unfortunately, this was interrupted by the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. However, he played a pioneering role, devoting his passion to both the practice and research of music and theater until just before his death. <References> Kitami Jiichi, "The Iron Flute and the Spring Dawn"

(Mitsuko Gamou)

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没年：大正14.2.4(1925)
生年：明治2.6.16(1869.7.24)
明治大正期の音楽家,演劇家。本名は季治。大阪四天王寺楽人東儀季芳の子。明治3(1870)年父と共に東上。12年より宮中に出仕,雅楽と欧州楽を習得演奏,30年まで勤務した。その間東京専門学校(早稲田大学)文学科,独逸学協会学校(独協大学)に学んだ。古い民族的文化と西洋の近代文化を吸収した彼の関心事は演劇へと進む。35年ごろから朗読法研究会,易風会で活動し,それを契機に坪内逍遥の文芸協会に入り,「ベニスの商人」のシャイロックを演じたりした。演技は豪快にして洒脱,型にはまらない新鮮さがあったとも評される。39年オペラ「常闇」を作曲。歌劇の世界にも身を投じた。40年10月には早稲田大学創立25周年に当たり,校歌「都の西北」を作曲。活気に満ちた旋律は,校歌・寮歌作曲のさきがけを成した。さらに伊井蓉峰,河合武雄,喜多村緑郎らの新派劇に投じて「不如帰」の片岡中将に扮すなどし,大正11(1922)年には大阪で新興劇で活躍,翌年帰京し新劇研究所で演出を担当した。晩年は日本音楽史の研究に没頭し,明治43年からは「日本音楽史考」を雑誌『音楽界』に連載。惜しくも大正12年の関東大震災で中断した。しかし死の直前まで音楽と演劇,その実践と研究両面に情熱をかたむけ,先駆的役割を果たした。<参考文献>北見治一『鉄笛と春曙』

(蒲生美津子)

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