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Who founded the Yatsuhashi school of koto music?
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The Yatsuhashi school of koto music was founded by a 17th-century blind musician named Jōhide.1
Jōhide was a student of Hōsui, who in turn had studied under the priest Kenjun, the creator of the earlier Tsukushi-goto school. After developing his own version of koto music that incorporated more popular idioms and scales, Jōhide adopted the name Yatsuhashi Kengyō and established the school that bears his name. He is widely considered the founder of modern koto styles.12