Kikuta Utao I
初代菊田歌雄
Kokyū - Koto - Shamisen
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Born in 1879, at age 6, Yoshida Uta became the adopted daughter of Kikuta Yaeto, her biological mother's younger brother. At 16, she was taught Nogawa-ryū shamisen and Tsugiyama-ryū (Ikuta-ryū) koto music. She also studied kokyū, violin under Kuroda Koikin, piano under Hamada Kinu, and gagaku (court music) under Ōmura Jūzaburō. She also mastered the shichigen-kin (seven-stringed zither) and the yakumo-kin (eight-stringed zither). In 1915 she became a contract instructor at Sōai Girls' High School and also a contract teacher at Ōsaka Women's Music School (predecessor of Sōai Women's University), teaching koto music. In 1918 she organized the Hōgaku Dōshi-kai (Japanese Music Fellowship), promoting the New Japanese Music Movement. From 1920, she concurrently served as a contract instructor at Ōsaka Municipal School for the Blind and Deaf, becoming a full-time teacher there in 1925. In 1933 she transcribed and published koto music scores through the Tōdō Ongaku-kai. In 1934 she campaigned with Kikuhara Kotoji and others to establish a koto music department at higher girls' schools. The Koto Music School, founded in 1935, received approval from Ōsaka City, and she served as an instructor there.
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Teachers Students
Inoue Reisetsu 1913 - ???? |