Teng Yu-hsien was a Taiwan

Taiwan

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ese Hakka

Hakka people

The Hakka , sometimes Hakka Han, are Han Chinese who speak the Hakka language and have links to the provincial areas of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and Fujian in China....

 musician

Musician

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. He is noted for composing many well-known Hokkien

Hokkien

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 song

Song

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s. Teng gave himself a Japanese-style pen-name as Karasaki Yau (唐崎夜雨) and a formal name called Higashida Gyōu (東田曉雨).

Biography

Teng Yu-hsien was born in Longtan

Longtan, Taoyuan

Longtan is a rural township in southern Taoyuan County, Taiwan　Province. Longtan is home to the headquarters of the Republic of China Army....

, Taoyuan of Japanese-ruled Taiwan. He migrated to the Daitotei

Dadaocheng

Dadaocheng , spelled Twatutia before Japanese rule, is an area in the Datong District, part of the Taipei Basin and a historic section of Taipei City. It was known as Daitotei by the Japanese and Tataocheng during the Kuomintang era...

 with his family when he was 3-year-old. In 1914, Teng joined Bangka Public School (艋舺公學校). He graduated in 1920, and subsequently entered the Taipei Normal School (臺北師範學校). In 1925, Teng graduated from Taipei Normal School, and became a teacher of the Rixin Public School (日新公學校). After he married Chung You-mei (鍾有妹) in 1926, he departed from teaching job and went to Japan

Japan

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 to study composition theory in the Tokyo Music Academy.

Teng return to Taiwan in 1930, then served as a translator in Taichung District Court. In 1932, he was invited by Wen-sheng disc (文聲唱片) to compose the March of the Daitotei (大稻埕行進曲), a Japanese popular song which was failed to come down until be rediscovered by a collector in 2007. Then he began to be interested by the Columbia Records

Columbia Music Entertainment

is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as . It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK Columbia trademarks in 1931. The company changed its name to Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd. in 1946. It used the Nippon Columbia name until...

, an early disc company in Taiwan, and entered this company by inviting of Chen Chun-yu

Chen Chun-yu

Tan Kun-giok , also known as Chen Chun-yu in Mandarin, was a Taiwanese songwriter and author born in Dadaocheng. He wrote many Hokkien songs such as Thiau Bu Si Tai and Siu Be Toa Kang Tiau , and had served as an officer of the Columbia Record, a Japanese-owned disc company...

, a songwriter that served as an officer of the Columbia Records. In 1933, Teng composed several well-known hokkien songs such as Bang Chhun Hong

Bang Chhun Hong

Bāng Chhun-hong is a Taiwanese Hokkien song composed by Teng Yu-hsien, a Hakka Taiwanese musician, and written by Lee Lin-chiu. The song was one of their representative works. It was released by the Columbia Records in 1933, and originally sung by some female singers at that time, such as Sun-Sun ,...

(望春風) and Goat Ia Chhiu (月夜愁).

He made a representative work U Ia Hoe (雨夜花) in 1934, a song that depicts the mood of a fictional pathetic woman. Between 1934 and 1937, Teng composed many other songs include the Moa Bin Chhun Hong (滿面春風) and Su Kui Hong (四季紅). After the World War II

World War II

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 occurred in 1937, the Japanese government began to reinforce the influence of Japanese culture, thus suppressed the development of the Taiwanese Hokkien songs. Many of songs that composed by Teng were banned, and some were rewritten into Japanese language

Japanese language

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.

In 1939, the Pacific War

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 became much more heavily, thus Teng resigned from his job and evacuated to Cyonglin

Cyonglin, Hsinchu

Qionglin Township is a subdivision of Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is located in the central area of the County. The population of Qionglin is about 20,818.-External links:*...

 of Hsinchu

Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; there is a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the capital of Hsinchu, where the government office and county office is located...

 with his family, then served as a teacher in the Cyonglin Public School (芎林公學校). His health situation was gradually turned down at that time, but he still composed some Japanese songs. At that time, Teng named himself two Japanese names Karasaki Yosame and Higashida Gyōu. On June 11, 1944, he died from lung disease and heart disorder

Heart disease

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 at Jhudong, Hsinchu.

List of composition works

Song	Meaning	Songwriter	Year	Note
大稻埕行進曲	March of the Daitotei		1932
一個紅蛋	A Red Egg	Lee Lin-chiu (李臨秋)	1932
望春風 / Bāng Chhun Hong	Desire to the Spring Breeze	Lee Lin-chiu	1933	rewritten as Mother Earth is Calling on You (大地は招く) by Japanese Army
月夜愁 / Go̍at Iā Chhiû		Chou Tien-wang (周添旺)	1933	Mandarin Chinese version: 情人再見
跳舞時代			1933
橋上美人			1933
雨夜花 / Ú Iā Hoe	Flowers in the Rainy Night	Chou Tien-wang	1934
春宵吟		Chou Tien-wang	1934
青春讚			1934
單思調		Chou Tien-wang	1934
閒花嘆		Lee Lin-chiu	1934
想要彈像調 (想要彈同調)		Chen Chun-yu (陳君玉)	1934
文明女		Chen Chun-yu	1934
不滅的情		Chou Tien-wang	1934
情炎的愛		Chen Chun-yu	1934
老青春		Lin　Ching-yueh (林清月)	1934
梅前小曲			1934
琴韻
碎心花		Chou Tien-wang	1934
閨女嘆		Chou Tien-wang	1934
風中煙		Chou Tien-wang	1935
姊妹心			1938
對花			1938
番社姑娘 / 蕃社のむすめ		Kurihara Hakuya (栗原白也)	1938
寄給哥哥的一封信			1938
四季紅 / Sù Kùi Hông	Song of Four Seasons	Lee Lin-chiu	1938
滿面春風		Chou Tien-wang	1939
小雨夜戀		Chen Chun-yu	1939
密林的黃昏		Chen Chun-yu	1939
純情夜曲			1939
南風謠			1940
南國花譜			1940
送君曲			1940
不願煞		Lee Lin-chiu	1941
昏心鳥
月昇鼓浪嶼
菅芒花

External links

• An introduction written in Chinese