San Jose Taiko

In 1973, Reverend Abiko and Dean Miyakusu recruited Hirabayashi to begin a taiko program through their Buddhist temple. Reverend Abiko and Dean Miyakusu were inspired by Kinnara Taiko in Los Angeles They decided they wanted to involve the kids in the community in taiko and enlisted Roy Hirabayashi’s support. Roy also invited his peers and under his leadership the program took off.
In July and August 1973, after Roy began a fundraiser for the group., Roy and Dean Miyakusu went to L.A. to meet Reverend Kodani of Kinnara Taiko and learn more about running a taiko group. Reverend Kodani set them up with some drums and taught them how to make their own drums. The drum building techniques Roy learned from Kinnara, and then honed with his own taiko group, provided San Jose Taiko a financially plausible way to build their drum ensemble and grow as a group.

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