Entrevistas

1. Celebrating traditional Japanese New Years with family

2. Learning Japanese at school and at home with family

3. Developing an original kata

4. Introducing Taiko in Vancouver

5. The philosophy of playing Taiko

6. Defining a Taiko player

Hirabayashi,Roy

(n. 1951) Co-fundador e diretor administrativo do San Jose Taiko

Learning Japanese at school and at home with family

Earlier in the elementary and junior high school, we were kind of forced to go to Japanese school and things just to learn. In high school, I really didn’t do that anymore. But still, my parents would speak a lot of Japanese to us. So I would be able to kind of understand that. And also, I guess when I was in junior high school and elementary school, my grandparents, my father’s parents, were living with us for a while. They definitely did not speak any English at all. So in order to communicate with them, it had to be in some kind of Japanese, broken English form. All of that was part of, I guess, my language understanding or education as far as Japanese.

I never, unfortunately, really embraced trying to learn it more, which I really regret right now because of the things we’re doing now and also just my relationship with things that’s in Japan. Although, fortunately, when I do travel in Japan, things kind of come back after a while.

educação famílias línguas

Data: January 26, 2005

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Art Hansen, Sojin Kim

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Roy Hirabayashi, diretor administrativo e co-fundador do San Jose Taiko, nasceu e cresceu em Oakland, California e frequentou a Universidade do Estado de San Jose. Além do seu trabalho com o San Jose Taiko, trabalha também para o Programa de Estudos Asiático-americano da Universidade do Estado de San Jose, Japanese American Citizens League, Pacific Asian Coalition e Buddhist Churches of America. (26 de janeiro de 2005)