Seikido ichigen koto school: 100 years after the death of Kotaishi SOTOKU, commemoration of the ichigen koto, 'From Rakusen to the present'
*Information at the time of adoption.
- Name of the organization or individual
- Issui MINEGISHI, the fourth head of the Seikido ichigen koto family
- subsidy category
- Creation Grant
- Grant Type
- single year individual
FY2 Reiwa 2020 2nd Term Creation Grant [Single-Year Grant Program]
Business Overview
From Hongta TOKU (1849~1921), the founder of the Cheongkyu-dong ichigen koto school, to Issui MINEGISHI (1967~), the fourth head of the present head family, each generation's ichigen koto representative pieces were performed at concerts and recorded and archived as CDs. "Haru no hi" (Spring Day) written by Kota TOKUGISHI, the founder of the school (lyrics and music from the renku collection 'Haru no hi': Kota TOKUGISHI) "Tomari Senso" (lyrics and music: Kota TOKUGISHI) "Iso no Matsukaze" written by Issui YAMASHIRO, the second (lyrics: Nobutsuna SASAKI, music: Issui YAMASHIRO) "Fuji" written by Issui MATSUZAKI, the third (lyrics: Saigyo, music: Issui MATSUZAKI, music: Shakuhachi, music: Akihito OBAMA) "Suga" written by Yoichi SAITO, the latter (lyrics: unknown, music: Toyohei MANABE, substitute music: Ichiyo SAITO) "Mojo" "To make your heart quiet" written by Issui MINEGISHI, the fourth (music: Issui MINEGISHI) "Hiho Torikai" (lyrics: from 'Hiko Sensho' by Koshiro ONCHI, music: Hakutomo AISAWA) Cast: Issui MINEGISHI Supporting cast: Akihito OBAMA (shakuhachi), Kazuha KATAYAMA (ichigen koto, concert only), Kazuhiro OGINO (ichigen koto)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Saturday, April 16, 2022
- Venues
- Kioi Small Hall (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)
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Profile
"Issui MINEGISHI, the fourth head of the Seigyodo ichigen koto family"
He was a great-great-grandson of Kota TOKU, the founder of the Seigyodo ichigen koto school. He succeeded to the fourth generation at a young age. He graduated at the top of the 40 class of NHK Traditional Japanese Music Technician Training Association. In order to pass on the tradition of ichigen koto music, which flourished during the Edo period and was originally an instrument for spiritual training, to the next generation, he gave concerts of new classical pieces in Japan and abroad and also taught them. In addition, he is searching for a new expansion with arts other than music such as dance and drama. In 2009, he won the bronze prize in the one-string and two-string instrument category at the Delphic (Cultural Arts Olympics). He received a grant from ACC to study in New York in 2010 and Taipei in 2013. In 2017 he toured the United States, giving workshops and concerts in 13 locations with American shakuhachi musicians Ralph Samuelson and Elizabeth Brown.