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Since the 1990s or so, the Uzagaku Fukugen Ensô Kenkyûkai has regularly performed as part of Shurijô Matsuri (Shuri Castle Festival), held around the first week of November each year, and for other regular and special events, as well as performing ''uzagaku'' for the filming in 2011 of a TV drama series ''Tempest'', set in 1850s Shuri. The group also participated in 2011 in performances reenacting or inspired by the 17th-19th century [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], in which embassy members would perform ''uzagaku'' at [[Edo castle]] before the shogun, as well as at the [[Satsuma Edo mansion|Shimazu family's Edo mansions]] and elsewhere. In the early 2010s, this involved a number of performances in Okinawa and Tokyo, with various aspects of the preparations and performances being filmed for a documentary film, ''Yomigaeru Ryûkyû geinô Edo nobori'' よみがえる琉球芸能 江戸上り.[http://cinemaokinawashop.com/?pid=97255984] Meanwhile, a separate group of musicians, the ''Rojigaku hozonkai'', has come to perform regularly for the New Year's celebrations and certain other events at Shuri castle; trained in ''[[minshingaku]]'' (a tradition of Ming/Qing music that has developed since the 17th or 18th century in [[Nagasaki]] into its own particular genre of Chinese-style Japanese music), they perform in a rather different style and have been critiqued by members of the Uzagaku Kenkyûkai.<ref>Yeh, 72-73.</ref>

Since the 1990s or so, the Uzagaku Fukugen Ensô Kenkyûkai has regularly performed as part of Shurijô Matsuri (Shuri Castle Festival), held around the first week of November each year, and for other regular and special events, as well as performing ''uzagaku'' for the filming in 2011 of a TV drama series ''Tempest'', set in 1850s Shuri. The group also participated in 2011 in performances reenacting or inspired by the 17th-19th century [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], in which embassy members would perform ''uzagaku'' at [[Edo castle]] before the shogun, as well as at the [[Satsuma Edo mansion|Shimazu family's Edo mansions]] and elsewhere. In the early 2010s, this involved a number of performances in Okinawa and Tokyo, with various aspects of the preparations and performances being filmed for a documentary film, ''Yomigaeru Ryûkyû geinô Edo nobori'' よみがえる琉球芸能 江戸上り.[http://cinemaokinawashop.com/?pid=97255984] Meanwhile, a separate group of musicians, the ''Rojigaku hozonkai'', has come to perform regularly for the New Year's celebrations and certain other events at Shuri castle; trained in ''[[minshingaku]]'' (a tradition of Ming/Qing music that has developed since the 17th or 18th century in [[Nagasaki]] into its own particular genre of Chinese-style Japanese music), they perform in a rather different style and have been critiqued by members of the Uzagaku Kenkyûkai.<ref>Yeh, 72-73.</ref>

While the Uzagaku Kenkyûkai has had several sets of ''uzagaku'' instruments made for the purposes of performance, the Churashima Foundation which oversees the operations of Shuri castle and several other sites in Okinawa had a separate set of instruments - some 20 instruments, plus a ''[[nagamochi]]'' box for storing some of them - produced, based on those held by the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]] in [[Nagoya]]. These replicas of the instruments from the collection of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]], produced over the course of some five years from 2002-2007, were produced primarily for display and not for performance.　Extensive efforts were made to reproduce the instruments as faithfully as possible; some materials, including [[cassia]] wood, whale baleen, elephant ivory, and tortoiseshell, were difficult to obtain due to environmental regulations, but in the end the Foundation was able to obtain sufficient amounts of most of these materials, and to avoid having to substitute more modern materials.<ref>"Ryûkyû gakki no fukugen ni tsuite" 琉球楽器の復元について, ''Fee nu kaji'' 南ぬ風 3 (2007/4-6), 14-15.; Yeh, 276.</ref>

While the Uzagaku Kenkyûkai has had several sets of ''uzagaku'' instruments made for the purposes of performance, the Churashima Foundation which oversees the operations of Shuri castle and several other sites in Okinawa had a separate set of instruments - some 20 instruments, plus a ''[[nagamochi]]'' box for storing some of them - produced, based on those held by the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]] in [[Nagoya]]. These replicas of the instruments from the collection of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]], produced over the course of some five years from 2002-2007, were produced primarily for display and not for performance.　Extensive efforts were made to reproduce the instruments as faithfully as possible; some materials, including [[cassia]] wood, whale baleen, elephant ivory, and tortoiseshell, were difficult to obtain due to environmental regulations, but in the end the Foundation was able to obtain sufficient amounts of most of these materials, and to avoid having to substitute more modern materials. The Foundation then had a second set produced for performance purposes.<ref>"Ryûkyû gakki no fukugen ni tsuite" 琉球楽器の復元について, ''Fee nu kaji'' 南ぬ風 3 (2007/4-6), 14-15.; Yeh, 276.</ref>

==Instrumentation==

==Instrumentation==