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[Koto players, Shinichi Yuize and Yasuko Nakashima, preparing for Budo-Kai Japanese music concert at Mrs. Kyoko Wakita's home, California, August 28, 1966]
[Koto players, Shinichi Yuize and Yasuko Nakashima, preparing for Budo-Kai Japanese music concert at Mrs. Kyoko Wakita's home, California, August 28, 1966]
[Koto players, Shinichi Yuize and Yasuko Nakashima, preparing for Budo-Kai Japanese music concert at Mrs. Kyoko Wakita's home, California, August 28, 1966]

[Koto players, Shinichi Yuize and Yasuko Nakashima, preparing for Budo-Kai Japanese music concert at Mrs. Kyoko Wakita's home, California, August 28, 1966]

Date1966
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.905
DescriptionHusband and wife, Shinichi Yuize and Yasuko Nakashima, play koto and shamisen with flutist Toshio Takahashi and koto instructor Kyoko Wakita at Mrs. Wakita's home in preparation for the Budo-Kai Japanese music concert to be held at Koyasan Buddhist Temple in September, California, August 28, 1966. Two women sit at left playing koto next to a man playing shamisen and a man playing western flute, far right. they are identified (left to right): Wakita, Nakashima, Yuize, and Takahashi.;2 photographic prints : b&w ; 5 x 7 in. , 2 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, August 31, 1966, English and Japanese sections.

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