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*''Chinese/Japanese'': 心越 ''(Xīnyuè / Shin'etsu)''

Xinyue was a Chinese Ch'an ([[Zen]]) priest credited with introducing [[Ming Dynasty]] ''[[qin]]'' music into Japan in [[1677]].

While the ''qin'' grew quite popular within certain [[literati]] circles, the introduction and popularization of "Ming music" more broadly is usually credited to [[Gi Shien]] (Wei Zhiyan), who settled in [[Nagasaki]] in [[1672]], and to his great-grandson [[Gi Shimei]], who published [[gishi gakufu|a book]] of Ming music in [[1768]].

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==References==
*Britten Dean, “Mr. Gi’s Music Book: An Annotated Translation of Gi Shimei’s Gi-shi gakufu,” ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 37:3 (1982), 326n29.

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