{"id":271,"date":"2007-05-15T07:50:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2007-05-15T07:50:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T07:50:56","slug":"profiles-of-ryukyuan-music-f-seigen-afuso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/music\/profiles-of-ryukyuan-music-f-seigen-afuso","title":{"rendered":"Profiles of Ryukyuan Music f – Seigen Afuso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts <\/font><\/span><\/strong>⑦<\/span><\/strong><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seigen Afuso<\/span><\/strong> (1785-1865)<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Uta-Sanshin Afuso Ryu (Style) Founder<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Master Afuso was born in present day Tera Cho, Shuri, <\/span>February 15th<\/sup>, 1785<\/span><\/st1:date>. <\/span>Born to the son of a Magistrate, like his father, he managed Kayo village. <\/span>He was transferred to Afuso district in Onna District. (<\/span>Current<\/span><\/st1:placename> <\/span>Onna<\/span><\/st1:placename> <\/span>Village<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>) It was during this time when he changed his name to Afuso. <\/span>Around 1808, he took classes from Sekko Chinen, eventually becoming Master Chinen’s most senior student. <\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/strong>After Master Chinen`s death, He edited a version of Chinen`s KunKunShi twelve years after the death of his master in 1840. <\/span>This Chinen kunkunshi is not the same version of Chinen KunKunShi preserved today. <\/span>Also as well as other famous works dealing with Ryuka (Ryukyu Poetry). <\/span>`Kadou Youhou` was a document created to give the do’s and don’ts about performing uta-sanshin. <\/span>He became leader of the Musican accompaniment section for the Unkansen as well. <\/span><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Master Afuso became founder of one of the two major Styles of classical uta-sanshin. <\/span>The story goes that King Sho Tai ordered Nomura Ancho to edit the KunKunShi of master Chinen; Creating Nomura Ryu(style). <\/span>Seigen Afuso sought to preserve the highly personalized, difficult to learn Master Chinen`s performance style. <\/span>Presently two organizations, Afuso Ryu Gensei Kai (established 1932) and Afuso Ryu Gensei Kyokai (established in 1960) He passed during the winter of 1865.<\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Profiles of Giants of the Ryukyuan Music Performing Arts ⑦ Seigen Afuso (1785-1865) Uta-Sanshin Afuso Ryu (Style) Founder Master Afuso was born in present day Tera Cho, Shuri, February 15th, 1785. Born to the son of a Magistrate, like his … 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-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}