Mitsuzaki Kengyo

He was a performer and composer of jiuta (jiuta) and sokyo (koto music). There is also a theory that he died in 1846 (Koka 3). His capital name was Naminoichi (nami no ichi). He was from Kyoto. He was a student of Yaezaki Kengyo, who developed Kyoto-style tegotomono (hand-held musical pieces) that turned shamisen music into sokyo (koto music), and he aimed to establish a new sokyo (koto music) that separated the shamisen, composing "Tenpo-gumi" ("Akikaze no kyoku" etc.) as a new sokyo (koto group song). He also composed "Godankinuta" as a synthesis of danmono (stage music) and kinuta (kinuta music), and wrote "Kotokyoku Hifu (Hidden Music of Koto Music)". However, due to his innovative activities, his woodblocks were burned, he was banished from his Kyoto craftsman's residence, and he died in obscurity in Kanazawa. His disciple, Koto Kuzuhara, inherited this piece as a Chinese-style Ikuta-style koto piece. He also composed "Shichi Komachi" and "Yoyo no Hoshi".

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地歌(じうた)・箏曲(そうきょく)の演奏家、作曲家。没年については1846年（弘化3）説もある。都名(いちな)は浪の一(なみのいち)。京都の人。三味線曲を箏曲化した京風手事物(てごともの)を発展させた八重崎(やえざき)検校の門下で、三味線を切り離した新しい箏曲の確立を目ざし、新しい箏組歌として『天保(てんぽう)組』（『秋風の曲』など）を作曲。さらに、段物・砧(きぬた)物の総合としての『五段砧』の作曲のほか、『箏曲秘譜』の著書があるが、その斬新(ざんしん)な活動のゆえにその版木は焼き払われ、京都職屋敷から追放され、金沢において不遇のうちに没したという。門下の葛原勾当(くずはらこうとう)により中国系生田(いくた)流箏曲として受け継がれる。ほかに『七小町』『夜々の星』などの作曲がある。

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