Special Concert Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Kenso-kai

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

Yonekawa Toshiko Music Office

subsidy category

Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Subsidy

Grant Type

single year

FY 2015 Phase I Tokyo Arts and Culture Promotion Grant (Single Year Grant Program)

Kenso Kai

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Business Overview

It is a concert to commemorate the 100 th anniversary of Kengokai, which was established by Koto (1883-1969), the grandfather of Toshiko Yonekawa, the second. It is held with the aim of having performers and audiences recognize that the sankyoku is something that Japan can be proud of as an intangible cultural heritage, through an ensemble of musicians of a high standard across schools. [Music] 'Matsu no Kotobuki,' Fumikiyo Yonekawa, Fumiki Satsuki, and others, members of Sojyokai, Chiyotoyo TSUJIMOTO, and others, members of Kenkotokai, shakuhachi = Yosuke KAWASE, Shinzan YAMAMOTO, 'Shin Aoyagi,' koto = Toshiko Yonekawa, sangen = Seikin TOYAMA (Living National Treasure), Mitsuji KIKUHARA, shakuhachi = Taizan KAWAMURA, Mineyama NOMURA < Ikuta and Yamada Kakeiai >, 'Shochikubai,' Ikuta school: Fumiko Yonekawa (Living National Treasure), Yasuko NAKAJIMA, Seikin TOYAMA (Living National Treasure), Mitsuji KIKUHARA, Yasukazu FUJII, Eika FUKUDA, Misoju NOSAKA, Yuriko MAKISE, Kazuko NAKAJIMA, Fumikiyo Yonekawa Yamada school: Yamase Shoin (Living National Treasure), Namino TORII, Hiroko NAKANOJIMA, Chiyoga FUJII, shakuhachi = Junsuke KAWASE, Akitoki AOKI, 'Shin Musume Dojoji,' kubu = Ichitaro NAKAMURA, region = Toshiko Yonekawa, flute = Yoshio NAKAGAWA, and others, bayashi = Chiho FUJIYA

implementation period

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Place of implementation

The Grand Theater of the National Theater (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo)

Profile

The second Toshiko YONEKAWA
Studied under her mother, the first Toshiko YONEKAWA (Person of Cultural Merits and Living National Treasure). He graduated from NHK Technical Training Association for Traditional Japanese Music. In 1995, he received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts for New Artists. In 1996, he received the Arts Festival Excellence Award from the Agency for Cultural Affairs. In 1998, he received the Award of the Japan Traditional Culture Promotion Foundation. In 2004, he won the ExxonMobil Music Award. In 2007, he received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. In 2011, he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon. In 2013, he received the Empress Teimei Memorial Silk Science Award. In 2015, he received the Award of the Japan Art Academy. He was the fifth iemoto of Kenso-kai. Kurashiki is a specially appointed professor at Sakuyo University.