{"id":263,"date":"2007-04-24T20:35:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T20:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-04-24T20:35:42","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T20:35:42","slug":"profiles-of-giants-of-the-ryukyuan-music-performing-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/music\/profiles-of-giants-of-the-ryukyuan-music-performing-arts","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts `"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; line-height: 200%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); line-height: 200%;\"><font face=\"Century\">Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts <\/font><\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"\"><span century=\"\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"\" mso-ascii-font-family:=\"\" &#26126;&#26397;=\"\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); line-height: 200%;\">&#9312;<\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); line-height: 200%;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Century;\">Haneji Choshu or Sho Jo Ken<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Century;\">, a prince of the ryukyu kingdom was born in 1617.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>He became one of the most influential persons of the Ryukyuan 17<sup>th<\/sup> century.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>With the reality of Japanese shadow occupation; policy began to reflect the necessity to appease the new Japanese authority.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>The first Ryukyuan history book, written by Choshu, reflects this fact.<\/span><br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt; line-height: 200%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong style=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); line-height: 200%;\"><font face=\"Century\">Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts <\/font><\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"\"><span century=\"\" mso-hansi-font-family:=\"\" mso-ascii-font-family:=\"\" &#26126;&#26397;=\"\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); line-height: 200%;\">&#9312;<\/span><\/strong><strong style=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); line-height: 200%;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Century\"><strong style=\"\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Haneji Choshu or Sho Jo Ken<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">, a prince of the ryukyu kingdom was born in 1617.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>He became one of the most influential persons of the Ryukyuan 17<sup>th<\/sup> century.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>With the reality of Japanese shadow occupation; policy began to reflect the necessity to appease the new Japanese authority.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>The first Ryukyuan history book, written by Choshu, reflects this fact.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>It states that the Ryukyuan kings of old were related to the Japanese imperial line of Japan through the legend of Minanmoto being King Shunten`s father (Detailed in future article).<span style=\"\">  <\/span>In 1666 at age 50, he became <em style=\"\">sessho<\/em>, or prime minister.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>He implemented many policies that brought Ryukyu more in line with the Shogunate.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>The most powerful cultural reform was the demotion of the position of High Priestess and marginalization of the <em style=\"\">noro<\/em> organization.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>He also implemented to the precedent that all public officials be proficient in a performing art, such as sanshin, dance, tea ceremony, etc&hellip;<span style=\"\">  <\/span>All of the major policy reforms are collected in a book named the, Haneji Shiori.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>He passed away in 1675, at the age of 59.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span style=\"\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Century\">              <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0mm 0mm 0pt;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\"><o:p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Century\"> <\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts &#9312; Haneji Choshu or Sho Jo Ken, a prince of the ryukyu kingdom was born in 1617. He became one of the most influential persons of the Ryukyuan 17th century. 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