Jinashi Series 8: 三谷菅垣 Sanya Sugagaki Kinko Ryu

Another really wonderful work! This one is from the Kinko Ryu school of Shakuhachi. Here is some history from Ronnie Seldin and Jin Nyodo.

This piece is one of the traditional honkyoku (central repertoire pieces) of the Kinko-school. During the Edo-period, playing the shakuhachi was a privilege of the Fuke-sect of Buddhist monks; these wandered throughout the land with their faces hidden by a basket, begging for their livelihood with their shakuhachi-playing, and occasionally employing the shakuhachi - their only possession - as a weapon.

After the privileges of this sect were cancelled at the start of the Meiji-period (1868-1912), and the sect was even banned for some years, the shakuhachi music of this sect was reformed in the Kinko-school as an art form without religious ties. The school takes its name from Kurosawa Kinko (1710-1771), who collected pieces from the by then extremely divergent traditions of the Fuke-sect, rearranged them, and established a collection of 36 pieces (honkyoku) as the basis of the repertoire. Honkyoku are solo pieces by nature (even though they can be performed by two players together), apparently simple, but very difficult to play.

Kinko-ryu: SAN'YA-SUGAGAKl

1-shaku 8-sun
5 min. 15 sec.

1. About the piece:

Please refer to the section on San'ya in "Commonly Used Titles." There are two titles (in Chinese characters) both originally pronounced San'ya-Sugagaki but these in fact are different pieces.
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2. Structure of the piece

There are no clear-cut dan but the piece can be seen as dividing into three sections: [Section I - Section II (upper range) - Finale]. In the first third of section I (6 breaths) all the basic melodies are introduced; then the section proceeds to combine them. In the second section one new melodic pattern appears in a higher range which is then combined with the various melodies of Section I. The musubi (finale) consists of a short new melody.

3. Special features of the piece:

It is played as one of the most sharply rhythmical pieces among Kinko-ryu honkyoku, and has a lucid, liberated mood.
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