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First term of fiscal year 2024 Creation Grant [Category I : Single Year]

Toshiko Yonekawa Recital

  • Organization : Kensoukai
  • Section : Artistic and creative activity in Tokyo
  • Type of Grant Program : Single
  • Art Forms : Japanese Traditional Art
Kaze -aya for koto and viola photo:Tomoko Hidaki
Kinuta photo:Tomoko Hidaki
Sasa no Tsuyu photo:Tomoko Hidaki

Outline

The program included two of Toshiko Yonekawa’s own compositions and two classical pieces (one of which included additional compositional elements for the koto by Toshiko’s grandfather, Kin’o), gradually taking the audience from a modern sensibility to the marrow of the classics. The program demonstrated that Jiuta and Sokyoku are genres that are still alive and kicking today, incorporating styles and trends from each era of their history.

Program
1.“Tsuki-aya” composed by Toshiko Yonekawa/ Hayashi instrument arrangement by Akikuni Takahashi/ Performed by Toshiko Yonekawa, Toshiyu Nakagawa, Toshiyu Okazaki, Akikuni Takahashi, Keiko Tada

2. “Kaze-aya: for Koto and Viola” composed by Toshiko Yonekawa/Performed by Toshiko Yonekawa, Tomomi Shinozaki

3. “Kinuta” Sangen part composed by Sayama Kengyo, koto part composed by Kin’o Yonekawa/ Performed by Toshiko Yonekawa, Toshihumi Asahina, Toshiyu Daigaku, Toshisui Noguchi

4. “Sasa-no-tsuyu” composed by Kikuoka Kengyo/ koto part composed by Yaezaki Kengyo/shakuhachi part composed by Tozan Nakao 1st/ Performed by Toshiko Yonekawa, Seikin Tomiyama (Living National Treasure), Taizan Kawamura

Profile

Kensoukai
Founded in April 1919 with the aim of encouraging the learning and promulgation of Ikuta-ryu koto music and Jiuta san-gen (three-stringed instrument) music, in order to pass on the art of the “iemoto” grandmasters in these disciplines, as well as of exchange and improvement in these arts among members.
In April 1922, the first Kensoukai concert was held at Tokyo Ongaku Gakko: Tokyo Academy of Music. Since then, the group has worked towards preserving and passing on these arts through not only performing classical pieces but also proactively performing the group’s heritage repertoire including additional compositional elements by Kin’o Yonekawa, and works by the first grandmaster and the second/current iemoto, Toshiko Yonekawa.

Contact

Toshirei Eto
Kensoukai
kensokai100@gmail.com

Period of Activity / Project

December 3, 2024

Venues

Kioi Hall, Chiyoda City, Tokyo

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