About Junko Ueda

Junko Ueda (Japanese: 上田純子; born in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese singer and satsuma-biwa player, presenting Japanese traditional biwa music (story-telling) and shômyô Buddhist chanting. Also, she is specialized to perform the pieces of Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (武満徹). Ueda studied satsuma-biwa with the famous Kinshi Tsuruta and Buddhist shômyô-chanting with Kôshin Ebihara. She studied piano and composition (under a.o. Joji Yuasa) at the Tokyo College of Music.

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Dan-no-ura

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Yashitsune

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Voyage (Pour 3 biwa)

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Atsumori

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Voyage (Pour trois biwa)

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ôhara-gokô

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Nasu No Yoichi

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