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  2. Yatsuhashi Kengyo - Wikipedia

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    Yatsuhashi Kengyō (八橋 検校; 1614–1685) was a Japanese musician and composer from Kyoto. The name kengyō is an honorary title given to highly skilled blind musicians. Yatsuhashi, who was born and died in Japan, was originally a player of the shamisen, but later learned the koto from a musician of the Japanese court. While the ...

  3. Nobuyuki Tsujii - Wikipedia

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    Nobuyuki Tsujii (辻井 伸行, Tsujii Nobuyuki) (also known as Nobu Tsujii) is a Japanese pianist and composer.He was born blind due to microphthalmia.Tsujii performs extensively, with a large number of conductors and orchestras, and has received critical acclaim for his unique techniques for learning music and performing with an orchestra while being unable to see.

  4. Kimio Eto - Wikipedia

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    Kimio Eto (衛藤公雄, Etō Kimio) (surname Etō, born 28 September 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012 [1]) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto. He began musical training at the age of eight with the renowned master Michio Miyagi. When he was eleven, he composed his first work.

  5. Blind musicians - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, Heike Biwa, a form of narrative music, was invented and spread during the Kamakura period (1185–1333) by traveling musicians known as biwa hoshi, who were often blind. These musicians played the biwa , a kind of lute, and recited stories, of which the most famous was The Tale of the Heike .

  6. Japan’s Oscar-Nominated Hiroshi Teshigahara Set for San ...

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    Japan’s Hiroshi Teshigahara, who seemed on track for greatness after winning two Oscar nominations for “Woman in the Sands,” will be the subject of a San Sebastian Festival retrospective.

  7. Here's who's performing at the 2024 Oscars - AOL

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    In 2021, Batiste won an Oscar for best original score for Disney-Pixar’s “Soul." He shared the award with his fellow composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Becky G, 'The Fire Inside'

  8. Biwa hōshi - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, hōshi referred to non-blind and blind performers and was also used as a suffix to a series of other types of people, such as dancing musicians (田楽法師, dengaku hōshi), Chinese-style entertainers (散楽法師, sarugaku hōshi), outcast artists (絵取り法師, edori hōshi), and men from Sanjō or men from temporary ...

  9. Haru Kobayashi - Wikipedia

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    Haru accepted anything that happened to her saying "if you walk with good people, its a festival; if you walk with bad people, its harsh training." [ 24 ] Sakuma wrote that Haru was a rare good-natured person, while other gozes thought that Haru was an exceptionally unlucky person. [ 25 ]