Re: Yonetani

From: TACHIBANA Hiroshi (tachibana-hiroshi@c.metro-u.ac.jp)
Date: Sun Nov 29 1998 - 23:15:52 PST


> I was wondering if anyone has information on a shakuhachi player called
> Iwao Yonetani.

Iwao "Yoneya", he is the most famous Minyo shakuhachi player.
He has a school and many students. Minyo shakuhachi is very much in
demand than Honkyoku in Japan.

Iwao's profile(japanese) and picture are here
http://www.venture-web.or.jp/cyber/event.html
His professtional career was start at 1959 as a Minyo singer,
and learned shakuhachi from Hirokado Reifu.

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Hiroshi TACHIBANA   tachibana-hiroshi@c.metro-u.ac.jp
Dep. of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Engineering
Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.  JAPAN



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