Life
Не graduated from the Chişinău Theological Seminary.
He was recommended by his big brother, archimandrite Anatoly (Tikhai), to then archimandrite Nicholas of Japan, became Fr. Nicholas' principal arranger of Russian liturgical music to Japanese translations during the early decades of the Japanese mission.
Yakov Tikhai came from Romanian village of Tărăsăuţi, Hotin district in northern Moldova (Bessarabia), and arrived to Japan in early 1874 to assist his brother the Archimandrite Anatoly at his assignment to the parish in Hakodate, Japan. Fr. Anatoly had succeeded Fr. Nicholas in the Hakodate parish when Fr. Nicholas transferred his mission headquarters to Tokyo. Later, Yakov was invited by Fr. Nicholas to serve as choirmaster at Suragadai Kanda.
Under the guidance of Bp. Nicholas, Yakov arranged the music for almost all the needed texts used in the Divine Liturgy, major feasts, baptism, funerals, the first week of Great Lent, and Passion Week. As his successor, Victor Pokrovsky under Metr. Sergius needed to do, Yakov found it necessary to change the music to meet the different sense and structure of the Japanese language.
Yakov married Yelena Yokoi, daughter of a prominent Japanese family, in 1876.
During a visit to Odessa in 1887, Yakov died. His wife and children later returned to Japan.
Read more about this topic: Yakov Tikhai
Famous quotes containing the word life:
“We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)