KotoWorld:
Site Guide
and links to external sites

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• Who am I?
• Koto basics: what is it?
• Tuning
• Contemporary koto stars
• Tadao and Kazue Sawai and the Sawai Koto Academy
• Keiko Nosaka and the 20- and 25-string kotos
• Meet my koto pals
• Peter Coates
• Curtis Patterson
• Darin Tokuo Miyashiro
• Discography
• Miyagi Michio, father of modern koto

links to external sites

• Other koto information (with English versions)
• Yasue Horiuchi's koto homepage
  This has a wealth of information on how to play, tunings, and several sound clips.
• A Japanese instrument retailer in western Japan
  This shop also supplies written music, tapes, picks and other accessories, as well as a number of items unrelated to music, such as fans and other souvenirs. I don't know how efficiently they handle requests in English, but there's no harm in sending them an email (link on homepage).
• Other information about Japanese music and culture (in English)
• The Unofficial Homepage of Akira Ifukube
  Information on the composer of many of Nosaka Keiko's works, also movie soundtracks such as Godzilla
• The Resource Center for Japanese Music
  This site looks anything but cool, but it has biographical information on contemporary Japanese composers, and details on various compositions.
• Kabuki for Everyone: an introduction to Japan's unique traditional theatre
• Information available only in Japanese
  • Zipangu:
    Assorted information on Japanese music, including a link to info on Gagaku (Japanese court music)
    and a link to the Hogaku Journal, the leading Japanese music specialist journal
  • Shakuhachi Homepage