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Buying violin (Japanese)
Kazuo Funai October 14 & 17, 2004
(Japanese) In Japan, when I was 18, in Osaka, out of my 24-yen-a-month salary, I …
Kibei schoolchildren in Hiroshima, Japan
Roy H. Matsumoto December 17 & 18, 2003
I started from first grade. So I'm, I'm one of the older, but so happened …
Difficulties understanding different Japanese dialects
Roy H. Matsumoto December 17 & 18, 2003
I am familiar with Hiroshima because everybody talked like that and I grew up with …
Soukou Bayashi: Dedicated to the Issei (Japanese)
Seiichi Tanaka January 27, 2005
(Japanese) Well, it’s no big deal. When I started to hit on the taiko even …
Taiko philosophy (Japanese)
Seiichi Tanaka January 27, 2005
(Japanese) For me, the dojo is a place for discipline. For myself, “I need discipline …
First taiko performance in the United States (Japanese)
Etsuo Hongo April 1, 2005
(Japanese) I found there was a Bon Dance at the Long Beach Buddhist Temple in …
Promoting group identity through taiko contests (Japanese)
Etsuo Hongo April 1, 2005
(Japanese) As I look around after 30 years of taiko playing, I see all kinds …
Taiko's sounds as Japanese cultural tradition (Japanese)
Etsuo Hongo April 1, 2005
(Japanese) I am not too sure that the taiko we play is traditional (authentic). Perhaps, …
Witnessing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Marion Tsutakawa Kanemoto August 3 & 4, 2003
And it was soon after that that Hiroshima was bombed. And, but that was the …
Reasons for starting taiko in America
Seiichi Tanaka January 27, 2005
Beginning by myself, and the big reaction. So that make us feel so good. Then …
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