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Toshiko Yonekawa
12+ albums
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Born 1913 in Himezi city, Hyogo prefecture, as the eldest daughter of Yonekawa Kin’o (1883-1969). She received lessons of koto and sangen from her farther. He was the first Ikuta school koto and sangen player who started artistic activity in Tokyo in Taisyo period (1912-1926). He himself was an excellent musician and performed traditional repertoire with a striking accuracy in pitches and rhythms. He was also creative in composition, inventor of the low-registered 13-stringed koto and inventor of new notations for koto and sangen. Educated by such a creative farther, Yonekawa Toshiko showed her progress even while she was a primary school pupil. It was very natural that she performed in a public concert when she was only 8 years old. She was only 12 years old when her performance was broadcast by nation wide radio. In addition to her performing activity, she began to compose. With her initial work Kokemizu (‘Water running through moss’) (No 1) she showed her talent as composer. Soon after that in 1942 she became recipient of the Education Minister’s Award by her work Ohaguruma (‘Sacred palaquin’) (No. 10). When she published her epoch-making composition, Tidori to asobu Teiko (‘Tieko playing with plovers’) (No. 33), in 1953, she was given the Art Festival Prize for the Encouragement by the Ministry of Education. As koto and sangen player, she extracted musical charms from new works written by her contemporaries. The extreme accuracy of intonation and rhythm as well as the u
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