HO
DAIKO
Motivated by a genuine desire to cultivate and perpetuate
Japanese Folk Art through the medium of TAIKO. HO DAIKO consists of members of
the
"Taiko" in general is often used to mean the relatively
modern art of Japanese drum ensembles (kumi-daiko), but the word actually
refers to the taiko drums themselves. Literally, taiko means "fat
drum," although there is a vast array of shapes and sizes of taiko. Within
the last fifty years since kumi-daiko was created, it has seen phenomenal
growth to the point where there are over 8,000 taiko groups in
