In her final year of middle school and on the grand stage of the national koto competition, Satowa Hozuki, the prodigal heir to the Hozuki school of koto, composed a song. It was a piece that was all at once, a frustrated tantrum, a sorrowful cry, and a desperate plea to connect to her loved … Continue reading [Five] The Sounds of Togetherness
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