About Yumiko Tanaka
Yumiko Tanaka (田中悠美子, born in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a gidayu shamisen player. While a student majoring in musicology at Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, Tanaka was attracted to the timbre of the gidayu shamisen (also known as the futozao, or thick-necked), which accompanies gidayu-bushi in Bunraku, traditional Japanese puppet theater. In 1979 she began studying gidayu recitation with female gidayu recitation artist Komanosuke Takemoto (a Living National Treasure)
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Music for a Four-and-a-Half-Tatami-Mat Room, Fragment 1
Music for a Four-and-a-Half-Tatami-Mat Room, Fragment 2
Music for a Four-and-a-Half-Tatami-Mat Room, Fragment 3
Music for a Four-and-a-Half-Tatami-Mat Room, Fragment 5
Music for a Four-and-a-Half-Tatami-Mat Room, Fragment 4
Furuike Ya
Music For A Four-And-Half-Tatami-Mat Room, Fragmen
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