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Biography
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Goro Yamaguchi
Real name: 山口 五郎 / Yamaguchi Gorō
Effective period / Period of releases: 1969 - 1994
Japanese shakuhachi player and composer. Born February 26, 1933 in Tokyo. Died January 3, 1999.Head of the Chikumeisha shakuhachi guild. In 1967-68 he was appointed Artist in Residence at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1992, the Japanese government designated Yamaguchi a Living National Treasure.