Kikuta Utao I
初代菊田歌雄
Koto & Shamisen
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Born in Osaka 1879. Family name Yoshida. At the age of six, she was adopted by her mother's younger brother, Kikuta Yaeto, and at the age of sixteen, she was taught the Nogawa style shamisen and koto music of the Tsugiyama school, as well as kokyu, and learned violin from Kuroda Koikin, piano from Hamada Kinu, and gagaku from Omura Joosaburo. In 1915, she became a commissioned teacher at Souai High School for Girls and Osaka Women's Music School (the predecessor of Souai Women's College), where she taught koto music. In 1918, she organized the Japanese Music Association and promoted the New Japan Music Movement. In 1920, she became a commissioned teacher at Osaka Municipal School for the Blind and Mute, and in 1914, a teacher. In 1933, she published a collection of koto music scores from the Tondo Music Society, and in 1934, she campaigned with Kotohara Kotoji and others for the establishment of a koto music department at a high school for girls.
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Kikuta Utao II 1910 - 1978 |