{"id":264,"date":"2007-04-24T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T20:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=264"},"modified":"2007-04-24T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T20:41:06","slug":"profiles-of-giants-of-the-ryukyuan-music-performing-arts-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/music\/profiles-of-giants-of-the-ryukyuan-music-performing-arts-a","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts <\/font><\/span><\/strong>②<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tansui Uekata<\/span><\/strong> (1623 – 1683)<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span>Born in Shuri, at age 15 he became an envoy to Satsuma’s court. <\/span>While he was in Kagoshima<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, he excelled at the studies of singing, dancing, and the art of tea. <\/span>These same attributes were promoted for employment in the government of Ryukyu by the policies of Haneji Choshu. <\/span><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


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Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts ②<\/o:p><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tansui Uekata<\/strong> (1623 – 1683)<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span>Born in Shuri, at age 15 he became an envoy to Satsuma’s court. <\/span>While he was in Kagoshima<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, he excelled at the studies of singing, dancing, and the art of tea. <\/span>These same attributes were promoted for employment in the government of Ryukyu by the policies of Haneji Choshu. <\/span>He is credited with being the father of Ryukyuan Classical Music. <\/span>He compiled old worship songs, festival tunes as well as agricultural working songs as well as original pieces. <\/span>He was fired because of fraternization with a political enemy of Haneji Choshu. <\/span>It was during this period of extreme poverty that he became a monk and delved deeper into uta-sanshin. <\/span>He in turn brought out the subtle beauty of what came to be known as Ryukyu classical music.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>After Haneji Choshu passed on, Tansui Uekata was summoned back to Shuri. <\/span>He was hired as King Sho Tei`s Royal Chief Tea Master. His uta-sanshin legacy became known as Tansui Ryu(style). <\/span>His major students included Tamagusuku Chokun, the father of Kumi Udui, Shinzato Choujuu, and Takushi Ryoutaku. <\/span>The first written copy of Tansui Ryu was not transcribed however until beginning of the Meiji era, by Nago Ryoho.<\/span> <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts ② Tansui Uekata (1623 – 1683) Born in Shuri, at age 15 he became an envoy to Satsuma’s court. While he was in Kagoshima, he excelled at the studies of singing, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}