Effective period / Period of releases: 2015

Japanese koto player, born in Tokyo and raised in Ibaraki, Japan.

Today she lives manly near Burghausen in Germany and in Yokohama, Japan.

Being raised in a family of musicians she started learning the piano at the age of three, and changed to the study of the 25-string Koto at the age of 12.
By the age of 14, she had already played her first Koto concert featuring her own compositions.

She studied at the „Tokyo University of Arts“ the traditional „IKUTA-Koto and the JIUTA-SANGEN Style“ (traditional 13-string Koto, Shamisen & Japanese singing).
After graduating, she began performing as a „Storyteller“ with her 25-string Koto and has been seeking new means of expression by working with various artists from different fields, developing her own singing style in the process.
Today she has become mainly one of the very few experts of the 25-string Koto, inspired and taught till today by her Master, the well known Japanese Prof. Keiko Nosaka (Souju Nosaka).