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Akita Sugagaki (Kinko Ryu)

秋田菅垣

[Genre]Honkyoku
[Escuela]Kinko Ryû - 琴古流

Historia (John Singer):

Among the Shakuhachi Honkyoku pieces there are the "Sugagaki pieces" and this is one of the so called "Sugagaki Mono".

The term Sugagaki, when used in Shakuhachi music, simply means pieces which are unrelated to the Fuke legend. The term Sugagaki also refers to a technique used in solo Koto music without voice. Akita is the name of a prefecture in Japan.

Akita Sugagaki is thought to have been transmitted to Kinko Kurosawa by Biao in Akita Prefecture. However, it may have been a transmitted piece of Koku Zan Dai-Ji Temple.

Akita Sugagaki (Kinko Ryu) aparece en los siguientes álbumes

Álbum Artista
Play ButtonAki no Yugure (Autumn Dusk) Shakuhachi : Kurahashi Yōdō II
Play ButtonAutumn Field - Yearning for the Bell Volume 4 Shakuhachi : Riley Kōho Lee
Autumn Field

The title of this piece literally means "Sugagaki from Akita". Akita, which means 'autumn field', is a district in northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. The term, 'sugagaki' cannot be translated though the pronunciation of the Chinese characters are known, the meanings are no longer understood in the shakuhachi context. The word 'sugagaki' appears in the koto tradition, but there is no apparent connection between this context and the shakuhachi pieces with 'sugagaki' in their title. One Japanese scholar has suggested that it refers to the now largely obsolete method of stacking bunches of rice stalks on wooden racks in the autumn fields, to dry before threshing.
Play ButtonComplete Collection of Honkyoku from the Kinko School - Vol 1 - Disc 3 Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Play ButtonEmptiness of the Sky, The Shakuhachi : Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
During his wanderings through Japan, Kurosawa Kinko learnt this piece from the monk Baio in the town of Akita in the extreme north of the country. There are obvious folk music influences in this piece, which may originate in the Akita area.
Play ButtonFeel It On Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Hankyō 反響 Shakuhachi : Kodō Araki VI
"Before moving back to Seattle, Washington in 1991, for my final concert appearance in Shimonoseki, Japan, my father selected Akita Sugagaki, which we played as a duet. This is the solo version of that piece."

Hōgaku seisen 40 - Shakuhachi Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

IN THE MOMENT
Play ButtonJapanese Bamboo Flute Shakuhachi : Richard Stagg

Kinko Ryu Shakuhachi Honkyoku Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Haruhiko

Kinko Ryū Shakuhachi Honkyoku Senshū - 1 Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi Honkyoku Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I
Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Haruhiko

Music for Zen Meditation - Shakuhachi Japanese Flute Shakuhachi : Rodrigo Rodriguez
Play ButtonShakuhachi - Classical Modern Best 30 - 01 Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Shakuhachi - Shika no Tōne / Akita Sugagaki Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Shakuhachi - The Japanese Flute Shakuhachi : Miyata Kōhachirō
Akita is a region near the northern end of the main island of Japan: in ancient times it was largely unsettled wilderness. Since there is no certainty that any of the melodic ideas come from this province, it seems likely that the location was used in the title simply to suggest the remote and the inaccessible. Sugagaki is a term that occurs
in a number of titles of 17th-century Japanese and Okinawan koto pieces in variation form: unlike most solo shakuhachi works. Akita Sugagaki is a loosely constructed series of variations. It is played here on the standard-sized instrument.
Play ButtonShakuhachi Meijin Sen Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō

Shakuhachi Meijin Sen 39 Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
Play ButtonShakuhachi no Shinzui-Shakuhachi Honkyoku - 01 Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
Play ButtonSui Zen - Blowing Meditation on the Shakuhachi - 04 Shakuhachi : Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
Akita is the name of a district in the northern part of the Japanese main island, Honshu. Akita Sugagaki is similar to Sanya Sugagaki in its possession of a special distinct rhythmical sense, and its ability to be played as a duet. It, also, may be related to the ancient koto composition called Sugagaki.

The piece probably was not actually from Akita, but, rather, its title is meant to convey the image of a cold, remote place.
Play ButtonWind in the Reeds Shakuhachi : Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
This version of "Sugagaki" or, "The Wind in the Reeds." comes from Akita, a far northern province in Japan. Although it may also be played as a duet, it is performed here as a solo.

Yamaguchi Gorō - Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi Honkyoku Zenshū 1 Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
Shakuhachi : Mizuno Kohmei

Zen (Shakuhachi, Koto, Guqin, Yanqin, Gayageum) Shakuhachi : Rodrigo Rodriguez
Play ButtonZen Music - III Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
Akita is the name of a district in the northern part of the Japanese main island and sugagaki denotes some instrumental pieces for strings. It seems that this piece originated in Akita district as an arrangement for a shakuhachi from a certain piece for a string-instrument and later spread to other districts. This is not a ritual music, either.