Meet Women Taiko Drummers Keeping the Japanese Art Strong | If Cities Could Dance
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While men once dominated taiko,
While men once dominated taiko, considered the heart beat of Japan's culture, Sacramento, California's Tiffany Tamaribuchi is among today’s master practitioners.
🥁 Also check out this episode from our friends over at Sound Field about the surprising influence of jazz on taiko: Jazz Drummer Learns Japanese Taiko Dr...
🥁 And if you want to learn how to play taiko, check out this tutorial with Sascha Molina of the Sacramento Taiko Dan: https://bit.ly/Taiko-HowTo
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Our history. Our culture. Our moves.
KQED Arts’ award-winning video series #IfCitiesCouldDance is back for a fifth season, with new episodes, dance tutorials and shorts dropping every other Wednesday. In each episode, meet dancers from across the country representing their city’s signature moves.
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Experience thunderous performances by professional taiko player and teacher Tamaribuchi and other women taiko players in Sacramento’s William Land Park and what remains of the city’s Japantown. In Sacramento Taiko Dan’s dojo, Tamaribuchi also plays a 780-pound drum, the largest traditionally-crafted odaiko in North America on loan to her from the 413-year-old Japanese manufacturer Asano Taiko.
As a child growing up in Sacramento, California, Tamaribuchi was captivated by the Japanese folk music and the big drum that kept a steady beat as people danced at the Placer Buddhist Church during Obon, the Japanese festival honoring one’s ancestors. She clearly remembers being told she could not play the drum because of her gender, but she didn’t let that stop her.
After studying in San Francisco with Seiichi Tanaka (known by many as the “father of Taiko” in North America), in 1988 Tamaribuchi founded Jodaiko, the first all-women taiko ensemble. Then, a year later, she founded the first taiko group in her hometown, Sacramento Taiko Dan. In the ‘90s, she traveled the world touring with the first international taiko performance group from Japan, Ondekoza, honing her skills on the odaiko—a large drum role usually played by men. She was the only woman out of 23 contestants in a 2002 national odaiko competition in Fukui, Japan—and she took home the trophy. For more than three decades, Tamaribuchi has elevated other women in the art form.
📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/KQEDCitiesSac
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - The Art of Taiko Drumming
01:46 - Taiko in North America and Seiichi Tanaka
02:11 - Tiffany's Odaiko Drum Practice and Family Story
02:46 - Japanese American Internment and the Impact on Sacramento
03:36 - Tiffany Becomes an Internationally Recognized Taiko Player
04:17 - The Tradition of Obon and Odenko
05:47 - Drumming Performance and the Spirit of Taiko Players
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🥁 Featured Performers:
Tiffany Tamaribuchi, Nicole Stansbury, Sascha Molina, Ezrah Molina, Claire Yee, Toshiye Kawamura, Henry Mizushima
🖼️ Featured Murals and Public Art:
Kosono Okina, Federico Díaz, Mateus Bailon
Accessibility provided by the Described and Captioned Media Program (www.dcmp.org), funded by the US Department of Education (www.ed.gov).
Captioning: Rick Goldman
Captioning QC: Rebecca Phelps
Audio Description Scriptwriter: Valerie Hunter
Audio Description Voice Over Artist: Debbie Grattan
Audio Description Editor: Heather Warren
Accessibility Engineering: Kyle Sisk
📌 Editor’s note: This episode was filmed under strict guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic. Safety parameters were followed to protect the health of the dancers and video production team.
#taiko #japaneseculture
🥁 Also check out this episode from our friends over at Sound Field about the surprising influence of jazz on taiko: Jazz Drummer Learns Japanese Taiko Dr...
🥁 And if you want to learn how to play taiko, check out this tutorial with Sascha Molina of the Sacramento Taiko Dan: https://bit.ly/Taiko-HowTo
🔊 Audio description is available for this video. Go to Settings - Audio Track - English Descriptive.
🔔 Hit that SUBSCRIBE button! 🔔
https://bit.ly/SubscribeKQEDArts
Our history. Our culture. Our moves.
KQED Arts’ award-winning video series #IfCitiesCouldDance is back for a fifth season, with new episodes, dance tutorials and shorts dropping every other Wednesday. In each episode, meet dancers from across the country representing their city’s signature moves.
******
Experience thunderous performances by professional taiko player and teacher Tamaribuchi and other women taiko players in Sacramento’s William Land Park and what remains of the city’s Japantown. In Sacramento Taiko Dan’s dojo, Tamaribuchi also plays a 780-pound drum, the largest traditionally-crafted odaiko in North America on loan to her from the 413-year-old Japanese manufacturer Asano Taiko.
As a child growing up in Sacramento, California, Tamaribuchi was captivated by the Japanese folk music and the big drum that kept a steady beat as people danced at the Placer Buddhist Church during Obon, the Japanese festival honoring one’s ancestors. She clearly remembers being told she could not play the drum because of her gender, but she didn’t let that stop her.
After studying in San Francisco with Seiichi Tanaka (known by many as the “father of Taiko” in North America), in 1988 Tamaribuchi founded Jodaiko, the first all-women taiko ensemble. Then, a year later, she founded the first taiko group in her hometown, Sacramento Taiko Dan. In the ‘90s, she traveled the world touring with the first international taiko performance group from Japan, Ondekoza, honing her skills on the odaiko—a large drum role usually played by men. She was the only woman out of 23 contestants in a 2002 national odaiko competition in Fukui, Japan—and she took home the trophy. For more than three decades, Tamaribuchi has elevated other women in the art form.
📖 Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/KQEDCitiesSac
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - The Art of Taiko Drumming
01:46 - Taiko in North America and Seiichi Tanaka
02:11 - Tiffany's Odaiko Drum Practice and Family Story
02:46 - Japanese American Internment and the Impact on Sacramento
03:36 - Tiffany Becomes an Internationally Recognized Taiko Player
04:17 - The Tradition of Obon and Odenko
05:47 - Drumming Performance and the Spirit of Taiko Players
👍🏽 Join us on Instagram: Instagram:
👍🏽 Like us on Facebook: Facebook: kqedarts
👍🏽 Follow us on Twitter: Twitter: KQEDarts
🥁 Featured Performers:
Tiffany Tamaribuchi, Nicole Stansbury, Sascha Molina, Ezrah Molina, Claire Yee, Toshiye Kawamura, Henry Mizushima
🖼️ Featured Murals and Public Art:
Kosono Okina, Federico Díaz, Mateus Bailon
Accessibility provided by the Described and Captioned Media Program (www.dcmp.org), funded by the US Department of Education (www.ed.gov).
Captioning: Rick Goldman
Captioning QC: Rebecca Phelps
Audio Description Scriptwriter: Valerie Hunter
Audio Description Voice Over Artist: Debbie Grattan
Audio Description Editor: Heather Warren
Accessibility Engineering: Kyle Sisk
📌 Editor’s note: This episode was filmed under strict guidelines due to the coronavirus pandemic. Safety parameters were followed to protect the health of the dancers and video production team.
#taiko #japaneseculture
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