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*''Born: [[1623]]''
*''Died: [[1683]]''
*''Japanese'': 湛水親方賢忠 ''(Tansui ueekata kenchuu)''
Tansui ''[[ueekata]]'' Kenchû was the first Magistrate of Dance (''[[udui bugyo|udui bujô]]'') of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], and the founder of [[Tansui-ryu|Tansui-ryû]], the oldest extant school of ''uta-[[sanshin]]'' today.
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==References==
*[[Robin Thompson|Thompson, Robin]]. "The Music of Ryukyu." ''Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p312.
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