Eva Nagase remembers well the beating of taiko drums reverberating through the air like “background music” during her childhood in Japan. “Every summer, my parents brought me back to Japan to spend ...

According to a long-time member of Taiko, Joshua Lau ’26, these three words encapsulate the student group. Taiko is an ancient Japanese drum tradition dating back to the sixth century C.E., and it has ...

There are precious few forms of music that are as physical, as intense, and as palpable as taiko, the Japanese drums and drumming art form that goes as far back as the sixth century. Thought to have ...

When Dave Stehouwer hears the thunder, he wonders if he has somehow caught lightning in a bottle. The Parkinson’s patient, with a mix of medicine and a boisterous Asian art known as Taiko drumming, ...