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Minezaki Kōtō

峰崎勾当

1750 ca. - 1801

Composer

A koto player and composer active in Osaka from 1781-89 to the Kyouwa period, and was a student of Toyoga Kensaku (1743-1785).

He composed many elegant pieces of haiku and tejimono, and left several masterpieces. In the tegotomono genre, tegoto became longer and longer, more emphasis was placed on the tegoto than on the singing, modulations were devised, the shamisen technique became more complex, and the jiuta developed more instrumentally.

The mainstream of composition then shifted from Osaka to Kyoto, where it was further developed by Matsuura, Ishikawa, Kikuoka, and others.

Composed or Arranged

Koto Compositions
Title Kanji Year Alternate Title
Nebiki no Matsu 根引の松


Zangetsu 残月


Shamisen
Azuma Jishi 吾妻獅子


Bessekai 別世界


Echigojishi 越後獅子


Hana no Tabi 花の旅


Kosu no To 小簾の戸


Sode Gōro 袖香爐


Sode no Tsuyu 袖の露


Tama Tsubaki 玉椿


Yuki


Zangetsu 残月