In our music class, the people from the band came to join us with koto class. One of our Koto teacher, Mr. Patterson, played a Japanese Koto song called Rokudan. Rokudan was written by Yatsuhashi Kengyo. We were asked to write a blog post about what makes Rokudan sound Japanese. This below is a video of [...]

On April 11th, our Koto teachers, Mr. Patterson and Ms. Miyama did a presentation about Japanese Music with Mr. Patterson’s friend, Mr. Huebner. They talked about how different Japanese music was to Western music and played who pieces together. The Koto was played by Mr. Patterson and Ms. Miyama, Shakuhachi played by Mr. Huebner, and Shamisen [...]

Today our koto group from 6grade performed a few piece with a koto in Futaba Girls’ School. We had our lunch faster than usual. We went to ICJC to eat our lunch at 12:00 and headed to Futaba at 12:30. Everybody was wearing a formal clothes and we looked smart! (jk) It took about 10 [...]

Hello. Us grade 6, played koto in a concert. Koto is a traditional japanese instrument. In total, it has 13 strings and you can make yourself creative using a koto. I was in the front right. We played a song called Okoto by Sawai Hikaru. This song had 3 parts in total. For this song [...]

Hello! We have a Koto Concert on April 27th on Friday at the Auditorium! Come and visit if you want!!