Yukiteru Hase - I'm going to Nagatani

Japanese: 長谷幸輝 - ながたにゆきてる

[Born] Tenpo 14 (1843), Kumamoto
[Died] 1920. Tokyo jiuta and sokyoku performer. He was blind. His childhood name was Hanzaburo. He became a disciple of Yukinomiyako (of the Kyushu-based Terazaki Kengyo lineage of the Osaka school) in Kumamoto at the age of six. He was called Teruka, and after his teacher's death, he studied under the head of the same school, Renminomiyako, and changed his name to Renminomiyako at the age of 17. At the age of 21, he studied under Miyazaki Koto (a senior disciple of Miyahara Kengyo of the Ishizuka Kengyo lineage) in Kurume. He progressed to Koto and took the name Kokito. He became independent in Kumamoto in 1877 and was known as a master of the sangen. In 1893, he moved to Tokyo and was the first to introduce Kyushu-style jiuta to Tokyo. He tried modifying the sangen and bachi (plectrum) and devising ways to hang the torso, and his bachi in particular was called the Kyushu bachi. His students included Kawase Satoko and Fukuda Eika, and it is said that most jiuta in Tokyo is of the Kyushu-style.

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Japanese:

[生]天保14(1843).熊本
[没]1920. 東京
地歌箏曲家。目が不自由だった。幼名半三郎。熊本の雪之都 (大阪派九州系の寺崎検校系) に6歳で入門。輝香と名のり，師没後同門座元の簾美之都に師事し，17歳で簾之都と改名。 21歳で久留米の宮崎勾当 (石塚検校系の宮原検校の高弟) に師事。勾当に進み幸輝都と名のる。 1877年以来熊本で独立し，三弦の名手として知られる。 93年上京し，九州系地歌を初めて東京に紹介した。三弦や撥 (ばち) の改造，胴吊りの工夫などを試み，なかでも撥は九州撥と呼ばれる。門下に川瀬里子，福田栄香らがいて，東京の地歌といえばほとんど九州系といわれる。

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