Background
Tsuruzaki Kengyō was born in 1864 in Hakata (now Fukuoka City). He came from a moso family.
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the Biwa, a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, often used in narrative storytelling.
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Kengyō Tsuruzaki
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Education
From early in life Kenjō received lessons in Biwa from his grandfather, Tanjō Tsuruzaki.
Career
After his grandfather's death Kenjō succeeded him to the family profession as supervisor of blind priests and as master of Biwa music in which the blind priests usually engaged. After that he continued practicing Biwa under Jōgaku Tamegami, one of his late grandfather’s prominent disciples, and attained proficiency. He assisted Takeko Yoshida in developing Chikuzen Biwa music. After Taeko Yoshida and Chijō Tachibana respectively proclaimed themselves founders of the Yoshida and Tachibana schools, Kenjō went on to call himself the originator of the Tsuruzaki school. Later he went up to Tokyo where he gave public performances and won acclaim (1907).
Connections
Kengyō married the younger daughter of Chijō Tachibana (1877) but soon divorced her.
