PTK hiryu sandan gaishi

Hiryu Sandan Gaishi is the first taiko tune I learned, on the shakere (beaded gourd shaker) when I joined a women's taiko group in Moab, Utah, in 1998. Henkei Taiko was founded by a music therapist who had studied taiko with San Francisco Taiko Dojo where she learned this piece. It was composed by Oguchi Daihachi, the father of modern kumi daiko, or ensemble taiko. He was originally a jazz drummer who was given some old Japanese music notation and perhaps a prayer which led to this song. It invites the protection of a dragon (some say several) for the village at festival time. Like all of his compositions, it begins with a prayer, this one referred to as "norito". Most of the words are in an ancient language and therefore it is difficult to translate the prayer into contemporary Japanese (if you know someone with scholarly expertise in this area please comment). Hiryu Sandan Gaishi is well-loved and known to many North American groups since the father of North American taiko, Tanaka Sensei, Founder of San Francisco Taiko Dojo learned it from Oguchi Sensei and brought it to the US.

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