History of meantone in Japan

Poking around in the Scala archives, I found a circulating temperament
consisting of four pure fifths followed by seven 1/4-comma fifths and
the wolf. This is called "hirashima", and is stated to be the
temperament on an organ at a Japanese women's college. Does anyone know
the story behind this, and if there is much of a history to the use of
the meantone fifth in Japan?

I imagine Manuel would know, since he probably put it there...???

-A.

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 6:17 pm, Gene Ward Smith wrote:

> Poking around in the Scala archives, I found a circulating temperament
> consisting of four pure fifths followed by seven 1/4-comma fifths and
> the wolf. This is called "hirashima", and is stated to be the
> temperament on an organ at a Japanese women's college. Does anyone know
> the story behind this, and if there is much of a history to the use of
> the meantone fifth in Japan?
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I thought it came from a webpage, but it may not exist anymore.
The information is probably in Hirashima's articles, which are not online.

Manuel