While various taiko drums have been used in Japan for over 1400 years, and possibly much longer, the style of taiko best known today has a relatively short history, beginning in the 1950's. This give you a chance to dig deeper into taiko history and brush up on your Taiko vocabulary.
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Taiko means "drum" in Japanese (etymologically "great" or "wide drum"). Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums (和太鼓, 'wa-daiko', "Japanese drum", in Japan...
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The history of TAIKO , emboldens those traditions. It is the art and the instrument. Taiko is derived from the character for ancient-taiko-meaning ancient times, and encompasses the character for large-dai, which most of these Japanese drums are. The KO, in Taiko is a figurative way of expressing the shape.
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Despite its long history as an instrument, taiko as we know it is a post-World War II phenomenon. Taiko became performance music after Daihachi Oguchi, a jazz drummer from Nagano Prefecture, put multiple drums of different sizes side by side and played them together.
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Mostly anecdotal and subject to little serious scrutiny, the history of taiko is frustratingly difficult to pin down. ... According at least to the artist who illustrated the Mutsu Waki, taiko were used in battles during the Heian era. Probably, these drums functioned like bugles in the armies of feudal Europe,
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Taiko refers to the art of drumming and the drums. Taiko in classical Japanese arts has a history of about 2,000 years and currently. Taiko is taking the world by storm pretty fast.
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At some point in the future, I would like to expand this page into a "development of the taiko-making process" section. I think that it would be very interesting to trace the evolution of the taiko from its roots in China and Korea.
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The Birth of Taiko Modern Taiko History Taiko in Municipal Activities .... His style of taiko drumming was a synthesis of Osuwa Daiko, Oedo Sukeroku, ...
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One very important element in the history of the establishment of taiko groups in North America is the process of drum making. In North America, a taiko group starts with the making of taiko drums. The price of taiko drums in Japan is outrageous, and it is very hard to purchase drums for a newly established group.
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