{"id":268,"date":"2007-05-10T08:10:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T08:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2007-05-10T08:10:34","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T08:10:34","slug":"profiles-of-giants-of-the-ryukyuan-music-performing-arts-c-aka-inko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/music\/profiles-of-giants-of-the-ryukyuan-music-performing-arts-c-aka-inko","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts c, Aka Inko"},"content":{"rendered":"

Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts <\/font><\/span><\/strong>④<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aka Inko<\/span><\/strong> (late 1400`s – mid 1500`s?)<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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The origins of the Ryukyuan, or Okinawan Uta-Sanshin is Akainko. <\/span>Some refute him ever being an actual person, but only myth. <\/span>He is credited with inventing the first Ryukyuan Sanshin and singing along with it. <\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts <\/font><\/span><\/strong>④<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aka Inko<\/span><\/strong> (late 1400`s – mid 1500`s?)<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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The origins of the Ryukyuan, or Okinawan Uta-Sanshin is Akainko. <\/span>Some refute him ever being an actual person, but only myth. <\/span>He is credited with inventing the first Ryukyuan Sanshin and singing along with it. <\/span>On the other hand, a definite myth says that Akainko was literally born of a red haired dog, hence the name, Aka (red) in (dog), ko(child). <\/span>Whether he created the first san (three) shin (string) instrument ever seen on the island, or not, is a mute point. <\/span>The fact is that he was a traveling balladeer and genius. <\/span>He took local, religious, work, and leisure songs of the common people (normally sung aka-pella up to that point) and put music to them. <\/span>He did this while memorized the words, inflections, and melodies; instantly fussing sanshin in to the identity of the Okinawan soul and identity. <\/span>He did all this despite the fact that while most areas he visited had a different dialect from his local area of Nenami, which was in Yomiyamamagiri-aka. (Yomitan village area) <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Akainku is reported to have lived around the late 15th<\/sup> century through mid 16th<\/sup> century, during King Sho Shin`s time (1477-1526). <\/span>It is recorded that Sho Shin, passed a law severely limiting the possession of formal weapons. <\/span>Instead, the samurai class, began to cultivate there `art`, less in militaristic ways and increasingly through the sanshin, dance, Tea ceremony, calligraphy, and writing ryuka.(Ryukyuan poetry consisting of 8-8-8-6 syllable prose) <\/span>Much of this ryuka was compiled into an anthology, called the Omoro Soushi, commissioned, again by Sho Shin. <\/span>On of these verses actually refers to Akainko by name, reaffirming the claim that he is the originator of the art of the Uta<\/font><\/span>―<\/span>sanshin (Singing sanshin playing).<\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Uta sanshin nu Nkashi Hajimayi ya,<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>Inku neagari nu kami nu misaku<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/em>Ryuka Hyakkou (1759)<\/span><\/font><\/strong>百控<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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Song(with)Sanshin `s longago(`s) Beginning (is)<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>DogChild(Akainko) soundeast `s god `s Honorable creation<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>Ryuka 100 verse compilation (1759)<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

(The long ago beginning of Song with Sanshin is<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Akainko, the Honorable creator of the sound of the east)<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>(Translation by Byron Jones)<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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