Two years after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the people of Japan continue to grieve the loss of loved ones, grapple with the enormity of rebuilding, and find comfort in the ties that ...

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Even if the name isn’t familiar, you might know the sound of the shakuhachi. It’s a traditional Japanese flute with a distinct, airy sound quality. Shawn Head is a local shakuhachi performer who ...

The shakuhachi is a traditional Japanese bamboo flute with a simple construction: It usually has four holes on the front and one on the back. But it can express a wide range of sounds and is used in ...

Marco Lienhard moved from Switzerland to Japan just after he graduated high school — and it was there that he discovered the shakuhachi. “I was really taken by the sound it was creating, the ...

Masakazu Yoshizawa, a musician best known for his mastery of traditional Japanese flutes who was featured on the “Memoirs of a Geisha” soundtrack, died Oct. 24 of stomach cancer at his San Gabriel ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

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Music From Japan and its Artistic Director, Naoyuki Miura, are thrilled to announce Festival 2011: a weekend of events in New York City's Baruch Performing Arts Center (Feb 12 & 13, 2011), and a ...

Standing alone in the middle of the stage in a kimono, Japanese musician and composer Dozan Fujiwara opened his concert with his own composition “Ku”, which literally means “sky” or “empty” in ...