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YONEKAWA Toshiko, living national treasure.
By TOKUMARU Yosihiko
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 unequaled beauty of sonority are well-known as her characteristics. In 1978 she succeeded to the position of iemoto (head of artistic clan) of the Kensokai. For these multifaceted activities numerous awards including the Medal with a Purple Ribbon, the Matuo geino award, the Fourth Class Order, and the Mobil Music Prize were successively offered to her.
Since 1994 as third Iemoto of the Japan Kneso-kai and since 1996 as living national treasure, and since 1997 honorary citizen of the Sinzyuku ward in Tokyo, she has been leading her colleagues and students and directing the musical activity of the koto and sangen performers. Her two daughters, Yonekawa Megumi and Yonekawa Hiroe, are very active in the same field as Yonekawa Toshiko and are already highly evaluated for the solidness of musical basis and flexibility in musicality transmitted from their mother.
(Professor of musicology, at Otyanomizu (Ochanomizu) University, Tokyo)
Speciality: Koto
Born: 1913/02/02
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Tracks recorded:
| Track | Album |
| Aki ni Yosu (Listen) | Kinko Ryu Shakuhachi - Koten Honkyoku - Kindai Shakuhachi Gaku |
| Cavalleria Rusticana (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Chidori no Kyoku (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Chidori no Kyoku | So - Japanese Traditional Music |
| Chidori to Asobu Tieko (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 1 |
| Dance Rituelle Du Feu (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Dance of the Hours - La Gioconda (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Defune (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Elegie (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Etude Op. 10 No. 3 (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Fune no Yume (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 32 |
| Fuyu no Kyoku (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 5 |
| Fuyu no Kyoku (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 2 |
| Fuyu no Kyoku (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 39 |
| Gion Kouta (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Godan Ginuta (Listen) | Rokudan Koto no Meikyoku |
| Godan Ginuta | So - Japanese Traditional Music |
| Hachidan no Shirabe (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Hagi no Tsuyu (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 38 |
| Hana (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 1 |
| Hanayome Ningyo (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Haru no Kotobuki (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 2 |
| Haru no Kyoku (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 4 |
| Hien no Kyoku (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 05 |
| In A Persian Market (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Itsuki no Komoriuta (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Junidan Sugagaki (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 07 |
| Kaede no Hana (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 4 |
| Kaede no Hana (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 2 |
| Kaede no Hana (Listen) | Rokudan Koto no Meikyoku |
| Kajimakura (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 33 |
| Keshi no Hana (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 4 |
| Keshi no Hana (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 35 |
| Kinuta (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 1 |
| Kinuta (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 09 |
| Kojo no Tsuki (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Konkai (Listen) | Fujii Kunie, The World of Shamisen and Jiuta Singing 4 |
| Kuroda Bushi (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Kurokami (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Kushimoto Bushi (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Liebestraume (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Mama no Kawa (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 3 |
| Matsu no Kotobuki (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 4 |
| Matsu no Kotobuki (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 25 |
| Meisho Miyage (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 24 |
| Midare Rinzetsu (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 1 |
| Midare Rinzetsu (Listen) | Selections from Koto, Shamisen and Shakuhachi |
| Nagare (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 1 |
| Natsu no Kyoku (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Natsu no Kyoku (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 1 |
| Niju Hachidan (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 08 |
| No Asobi (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 13 |
| O Edo Nihon Bashi (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Polovetzer Tanze - Prince Igor (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Rokudan no Shirabe (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Rokudan no Shirabe (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Rokudan no Shirabe (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 1 |
| Rokudan no Shirabe (Listen) | Selections from Koto, Shamisen and Shakuhachi |
| Rokudan no Shirabe | So - Japanese Traditional Music |
| Sabre Dance (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Sakura (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Samushiro (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 26 |
| Shakkyo (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 12 |
| Shin Musume Dojoji (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 3 |
| Shinya no Tsuki (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 27 |
| Soran Bushi (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Tanko Bushi (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Thais Meditation (Listen) | Danse Rituelle du Fue, Liebestraume |
| Tooryanse (Listen) | Flute and Koto of Japan |
| Tsuru no Koe (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Uji Meguri (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 5 |
| Uji Meguri (Listen) | Fascination of the Shakuhachi - 4 |
| Uji Meguri (Listen) | Fujii Kunie, The World of Shamisen and Jiuta Singing 4 |
| Ume Dojoji (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 2 |
| Ume no Yado (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 32 |
| Wakana (Listen) | Fascination of the Shakuhachi - 4 |
| Yachio Jishi (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Yaegoromo (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 5 |
| Yaegoromo (Listen) | Sankyoku |
| Yotsu no Tami (Listen) | Sokyoku Jiuta Taikei 27 |
| Yugao (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 2 |
| Yuku Haru (Listen) | Fascination of the Koto 1 |
| Zangetsu (Listen) | Musical Cosmos of Yonekawa Toshiko 1 |
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