Seiichi Tanaka
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Seiichi Tanaka, born in Tokyo, Japan in 1943, is a percussionist and the first Japan-trained teacher of kumidaiko, or taiko, in the United States. In 1967, he immigrated to the U.S. and returned to Japan to study under Daihachi Oguchi, Susumu Kowase, and Shosaku Ikeda. In 1968, Tanaka founded the San Francisco Taiko Dojo, the first North American taiko ensemble. His performance credits include work on the soundtrack for the film The Right Stuff.
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