Background
Kinshin was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1885.
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Kinshin Nagata
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also known as
Takeo
Education
Trained as an artist, he entered his paintings at the Education Ministry exhibitions. Studied biwa music and singing under Kin-o Yoshimizu, who was a master of biwa music of the Satsuma school. Calling himself Kin-shin, he became popular for his new ways of singing. He organized the Issuikai, a biwa music society in 1908. Because his rendition of biwa songs differed from the traditional Satsuma school, his style was called Kinshin school. There were more than 7,000 disciples of Kinshin.
