b. c.1949, Yaeyama Isle, Okinawa, Japan. Tetsuhiro’s muse is normally directly associated with his history in the tiny isle of Yaeyama, over 400 kilometres south-west of Okinawa. The Yaeyamans typically sung while functioning the fields, leading to yunta and jiraba or ‘functioning songs’. In the last hundred years the sanshin …
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