Dongming Festival - Dongming Smoke

Japanese: 東明節 - とうめいぶし

The name of a genre of shamisen music. It was founded by Hiraoka Hiroshi (Hiraoka Ginshu), a pioneer of the railway industry. After returning from the United States in 1877, he began manufacturing train carriages, while at the same time supporting Yamabiko Hideo (the 11th Masumi Kato) of Katobushi and working hard to revive it. He also studied Noh plays, Itchu-bushi, and Kiyomoto, and released a variety of new pieces of his own invention. These new pieces were generally called Hiraoka-bushi, but from around 1902, under the name Ginshu, he called them Tomei-bushi. It became popular as many of the top entertainers of the time learned it, and from around 1928, it was renamed Tomei-ryu.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

三味線音楽の種目名。鉄道工業の先駆者，平岡熙（ひろし）(平岡吟舟)が創始した。彼は1877年アメリカから帰国後，汽車の車両製造をはじめる一方，河東節（かとうぶし）の山彦秀翁(11世十寸見（ますみ）河東)を後援してその復興に力を尽くしたが，謡曲，一中節，清元なども学び，みずからくふうして各種の新作を発表した。その新曲を世間では平岡節といったが，吟舟を名のった彼は1902年ころから東明節と称した。当時の一流芸能人がこれを学んだので流行，28年ころからは東明流と改めた。

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