This relaxing Japanese music with koto, bells, and Japanese nature sounds is the perfect background music to create a zen ...

Became the first non-Japanese national to graduate from the NHK master’s program for young performers of traditional Japanese music in 1995. A member of the Sawai Tadao Koto Ensemble and Soemon ...

When they first started, Okida Kuramoto says, she was hoping to take the koto in a new direction and, as part of the band’s “One World” approach, create music uniquely Japanese American. She ...

The koto sounds come from Michiyo Yagi, a koto player, improviser and composer. Her music spans genres and is impossible to define. She has incredible breadth, perhaps unparalleled in the koto or ...

Japanese Koto Instrument Adds Lasers Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, ... (Soundbite of music) ...

Music Sep 8, 2014 at 3:06 pm. Jazz Beautified by Japanese Traditional Koto Music Charles Mudede. Before you go to this show, you should visit kotojazz.com. It’s filled with ...

Koto is a traditional Japanese string instrument with 13 strings, somewhat similar to a santoor, while the shamisen is a three-string instrument similar to a rubab. Kaneko started by thanking the ...

Ivory, he learned, was not always a component of shamisen and koto. Both instruments came from China, with koto arriving in Japan around AD700 and shamisen appearing in the 16th Century Eiroku period.

KARACHI: Japanese Koto and Shamisen concert titled “Japanese Traditional Music and Improvisation” enthralled audience at a local hotel. Sindh Minister for Culture and Toursin, Sharmila ...