Sado, Niigata Pref. – Masami Miyazaki’s lean legs ripple with muscle; her strong, sinewy forearms swing upward through the air. She draws a grounding breath in, chest expanding. The bachi drumsticks ...

Although wadaiko 1 (traditional Japanese drums) is often regarded as a traditional performing art, its current form was actually newly created from a modern perspective. In this article, we hear from ...

It’s the image that comes to most people when they think of a traditional taiko (Japanese drum) performance: A man standing in front of a giant drum, back to the crowd and furiously banging away to ...

Taiko drumming, otherwise known as Kumi-daiko, is a traditional Japanese art form performed on various sizes of barrel shaped drums using heavy wooden sticks. Toowoomba Taiko is a group who meet to ...