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Yatsuhashi Kengyo
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Yatsuhashi Kengyo / 八橋検校 (1614-1685) was a Japanese composer and koto player. He was a gifted blind musician from Kyoto who changed the limited selection of six songs to a brand new style of koto music which he called kumi uta. Yatsuhashi changed the Tsukushi goto tunings, which were based on ga… read more
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Nanae Yoshimura
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Traditional Sound of Japan
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Tadao Sawai
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Masayo Ishigure
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Koto Ensemble Of The Ikuta School, Japan
7,319 listeners
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