Naoko Watanabe
A writer/editor living in Seattle, North America. Currently a freelancer, she covers and writes about Seattle-related topics. Her areas of expertise are arts and entertainment, interviews, and intercultural understanding. She is a former editor at Soy Sauce. She likes piano, monkeys, traveling, and Japanese grammar analysis.
(Updated April 2019)
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Seattle Miyagi Association, Kuniko Takamura
April 19, 2019 • Naoko Watanabe
Koto performer Miyagi Michio. Even if you don't know his name, every Japanese person has heard Miyagi's masterpiece, "Haru no Umi," a standard New Year's song. This time, we interviewed Takamura Kuniko, a direct disciple of Miyagi, who is an important figure that cannot be avoided when talking about Japanese music history. We will explore Kuniko's life with Japanese traditional music, who founded the Seattle Miyagi Association in 1959 and has been teaching koto and shamisen (jiuta samisen) for the …
