Yoshida Iccho - Yoshida Iccho

Japanese: 吉田一調 - よしだ・いっちょう

Year of death: August 9, 1881
Year of birth: Bunka 9 (1812)
A Kinko-ryu shakuhachi player from the late Edo and Meiji periods. His real name was Kozo, and he was also known as Seifuken. Although he was a shogunate official, he loved the shakuhachi from an early age, learning from Shoda Baigetsu and Hisamatsu Fuyo. At the age of 26, he joined the Fuke sect and studied under Ichigatsu-ji temple abbot Ichiro, and later became a shakuhachi instructor at Ichigatsu-ji temple and Rippo-ji temple. When the Fuke sect was abolished in 1871 (Meiji 4), he worked hard to preserve the shakuhachi as a musical instrument together with Araki Kodo II, a disciple of Hisamatsu. He was also skilled in calligraphy and writing, and left behind many memoirs, including "Michi no Ki" (1837) and "A Book Given to a Komuso, a Bamboo Disciple, to Hold" (1838). <References> Kurihara Kota, "Shakuhachi History" (Reprint, 1975)

(Toru Seyama)

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Japanese:

没年：明治14.8.9(1881)
生年：文化9(1812)
江戸後期・明治期の琴古流尺八奏者。本名は耕三。清風軒とも称する。幕臣ながら幼時から尺八を好み,正田梅月,久松風陽に学ぶ。26歳で普化宗に入り,一月寺貫主一膓に師事,のち一月寺,鈴法寺の尺八指南番となる。明治4(1871)年の普化宗廃止に当たっては,久松門下の2代目荒木古童と共に,「楽器」としての尺八の存続に力を尽くした。書や文筆にも優れ,『道の記』(1837),『竹弟子の虚無僧に授け持たしめたる一書』(1838)など多くの手記を残している。<参考文献>栗原広太『尺八史考』(復刻,1975)

(瀬山徹)

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