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Let's travel to a capital in Nara and in front of the Great Buddha Hall in Tenpyo Period.
A wind is rustling.
Someone is playing an ancient harp.
This musical instrument is called KUGO.
You have a beautiful triangle, a perch of a Chinese phoenix.
They have 23 silk strings on the large body of a paulownia.
Though the sound seems to be a koto, the high range is clear, delicate, elegant and light.
The tension is loose in the low range of a long and thick string is called the ancient "sound of water" and it's said as the most beautiful sound.
There is a word which touches heartstrings at the heart, but it's the modest musical instrument which evokes old dear good and a new identity as Japanese, isn't it?
Yo SAITO Born in Yokohama, to parents who were both musicians. She began playing the harp at age 14. Studied harp at Tokyo University of the Arts and Conservatoire de Lausanne. 2nd prize winner of Japan Harp Competition. Yo is doing composition and arrangement by herself from 1997, CD albums of the whole self-composition was published from major labels. In "ONE OK ROCK with Orchestra Japan Tour 2018", she was in charge of the harpist of Udai Shika's Orch. She is passionate about promoting harp music. Associate member of JASRAC.
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