Glenview resident Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto is having quite a 50th! She will celebrate five decades of koto playing on March 20 with a concert at the Lakeside Theater, featuring musicians from around ...

Japanese-studies specialist and Japanese language teacher Katarzyna Karpowicz tells us about playing the koto and the Japanese musical avant-garde. Filip Lech: How did you end up in Japan? Katarzyna ...

Instrumentalists in brilliantly colored kimonos assembled Sunday at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland for a handsome display of koto music. The players, drawn from the Washington ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The dulcet, exotic sound of the Japanese koto will be on ...

The koto's timbre. . .gives the music an ethereal air, quite fitting since the koto was an ancient instrument identified with the voice of the spirit in medieval times My wife and I are sitting in ...

Miyagi Michio 宮城道[unpresentable symbol] (1894-1956), koto performer, composer, and educator, was a musical innovator who modified traditional instruments, incorporated new ideas into the body of work ...