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Created page with "*''Born: 1728'' *''Died: 1774'' *''Other Names'': 魏皓 ''(Gi Kou / C: Wèi Hào)'', 鉅鹿民部 ''(Ôga Minbu)'' *''Japanese/Chinese'': 魏 子明 ''(Gi Shimei ..."
*''Born: [[1728]]''
*''Died: [[1774]]''
*''Other Names'': 魏皓 ''(Gi Kou / C: Wèi Hào)'', 鉅鹿民部 ''(Ôga Minbu)''
*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[魏]] 子明 ''(Gi Shimei / Wèi Zimíng)''
Gi Shimei was a musician and artist of [[Fujian province|Fujianese]] descent who played a notable role in spreading [[Ming Dynasty]] music in mid-[[Edo period]] [[Kyoto]]. He is known in particular for having compiled the ''[[Gi-shi gakufu]]'', a [[1768]] publication of many of the Ming musical pieces passed down within his family. This was published widely in woodblock-printed form and was intended as a text from which others could study and practice Chinese music; today, it is a valuable source for scholars seeking to research the presence and practice of Chinese music in Edo period Japan.
Shimei was a great-grandson of [[Gi Shien]], who came to Japan from Fujian in the 1660s, fleeing the [[Qing Dynasty|Manchu]] conquest of China. Gi Shien settled in [[Nagasaki]] in [[1672]], and was naturalized (became recognized as "Japanese") in [[1679]], taking on the new surname Ôga.
Shimei made a name for himself in Kyoto as both a musician, and as a painter in the style of the [[Nanpin school]]. He is listed as a painter in the 1768 ''Heian jinbutsu shi'' ("Book of People of Kyoto"), alongside such names as [[Ito Jakuchu|Itô Jakuchû]], [[Ike no Taiga]], [[Maruyama Okyo|Maruyama Ôkyo]], and [[Yosa Buson]]. According to one of his pupils, [[Tsutsui Keishu|Tsutsui Keishû]], there were over one hundred people who had studied Ming music under Shimei. Further, he and his students were invited from time to time to perform at the mansions of [[kuge|court nobles]] and other elites of the city.
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==References==
*Nakao Yukari 中尾友香梨, "Nihon ni okeru Mingaku no juyô" 「日本における明楽の受容」, in Kojima Yasunori 小島康敬 (ed.), ''Reigaku bunka'' 礼楽文化, 343-344.
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*''Died: [[1774]]''
*''Other Names'': 魏皓 ''(Gi Kou / C: Wèi Hào)'', 鉅鹿民部 ''(Ôga Minbu)''
*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[魏]] 子明 ''(Gi Shimei / Wèi Zimíng)''
Gi Shimei was a musician and artist of [[Fujian province|Fujianese]] descent who played a notable role in spreading [[Ming Dynasty]] music in mid-[[Edo period]] [[Kyoto]]. He is known in particular for having compiled the ''[[Gi-shi gakufu]]'', a [[1768]] publication of many of the Ming musical pieces passed down within his family. This was published widely in woodblock-printed form and was intended as a text from which others could study and practice Chinese music; today, it is a valuable source for scholars seeking to research the presence and practice of Chinese music in Edo period Japan.
Shimei was a great-grandson of [[Gi Shien]], who came to Japan from Fujian in the 1660s, fleeing the [[Qing Dynasty|Manchu]] conquest of China. Gi Shien settled in [[Nagasaki]] in [[1672]], and was naturalized (became recognized as "Japanese") in [[1679]], taking on the new surname Ôga.
Shimei made a name for himself in Kyoto as both a musician, and as a painter in the style of the [[Nanpin school]]. He is listed as a painter in the 1768 ''Heian jinbutsu shi'' ("Book of People of Kyoto"), alongside such names as [[Ito Jakuchu|Itô Jakuchû]], [[Ike no Taiga]], [[Maruyama Okyo|Maruyama Ôkyo]], and [[Yosa Buson]]. According to one of his pupils, [[Tsutsui Keishu|Tsutsui Keishû]], there were over one hundred people who had studied Ming music under Shimei. Further, he and his students were invited from time to time to perform at the mansions of [[kuge|court nobles]] and other elites of the city.
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==References==
*Nakao Yukari 中尾友香梨, "Nihon ni okeru Mingaku no juyô" 「日本における明楽の受容」, in Kojima Yasunori 小島康敬 (ed.), ''Reigaku bunka'' 礼楽文化, 343-344.
[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]