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| Shoko Hikage Homepage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shoko's New site Please Visit!! |
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| Koto player Shoko Hikage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Shoko Hikage is a koto (Japanese musical instrument) player who resides in San Francisco, performed regularly throughtout the world. Shoko enjoyes collaborating with other artists and musicians and continues Shoko's interest in improvisational dance and music. Koto: The koto is a 13-stringed pluked zither which was introduced from mainland Asia via the Korea peninsula about the seventh century A.D., about the same time as Buddihism and many other cultual traditions from China. The instrument has been used in the gagaku court ensemble continuously for over a thousand years and became a very popular secular musical instrument among the merchant class of the Edo Period (c. 1600-1868) |
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| Shoko Music & CD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Upcoming Events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Koto ensemble LANTANA concerts Sep. 18 @ Hill side club Sep. 21 @ Old First Concerts |
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| Links: Tadao & Kazue Sawai/ Masayo Ishigure/ Elizabeth Falconer/ Ryuko Mizutani /Sawai Koto International and more | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AMASIA Hide's Sushi bar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Email: | shokohikage@yahoo.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||