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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Terumasa Hino

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Terumasa Hino with Toshiko Akiyoshi at Lake Biwa in 1986. Sometimes there are moments in life that make an artist feel it was all worth it. ...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

At One With Brazil

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Amanojaku's Yoichi Watanabe and Isaku Kageyama are now in Brazil to share the joy of taiko. "Kizuna" was co-written by Watanab...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Amanojaku at Sogetsu Hall

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Amanojaku concert at Sogetsu Hall in Tokyo Dec. 8, 2009. "Kaiun" by Yoichi Watanabe, performed by (from left to right) Daisuke W...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

The Autobiography of Yoichi Watanabe 2

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Isao Tokuhashi and I are working together in compiling an oral history of Yoichi Watanabe, the leader and founder of Tokyo taiko group ...

winning and losing

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In sports, career, dating and other games people play in life, there is always a winner and there is always a loser. Most people spend their...
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company you keep

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I am so tickled proud to see my name right in-between Roberta Flack and Don Ayler in the list Eric Kamau Gravatt keeps on his Web page for...

Drumming in 2010

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A HAPPY UPBEAT NEW YEAR with taiko drumming by Isaku Kageyama with Seijuro Sawada on shamisen _ all to House DJ-ing _ at the Mandarin Orie...
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Yuri Kageyama
Poet, writer in Tokyo. "The New and Selected Yuri _ Writing From Peeling till Now" Ishmael Reed Publishing Co. 2011. "Peeling" I. Reed Press. Poems, stories, essays in "Y'Bird" "Pow Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience _ Short Fiction from Then to Now" "San Francisco Stories" "On a Bed of Rice" "Konch" "Breaking Silence" "Greenfield Review" "Beyond Rice" "River Styx" "Other Side River" "Yellow Silk" "Stories We Hold Secret" "MultiAmerica" and other publications. Read with Ishmael Reed, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Geraldine Kudaka, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Russel Baba, Seamus Heaney, Shozu Ben, Winchester Nii Tete, Eric Kamau Gravatt, Takenari Shibata, Toshinori Takimoto, Teruyuki and Haruna Kawabata, Keiji Kubo, Yumi Miyagishima, Carl Freire, Abel Coelho, Yuri Matsueda. "Talking TAIKO" a film by Yoshiaki Tago documents her poetry. "A Back Alley Asian American Love Story of Sorts" by Niccolo Caldararo of her story was shown at the San Francisco and New York Asian American film festivals, won awards at the 1986 Palo Alto Film Festival, 1987 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1988 Onion City Film Festival. Magna cum laude Cornell University, M.A. the University of California Berkeley.
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