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Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka & the San Francisco Taiko Dojo

A performer, on stage, is dressed in a lion costume, with one foot elevated and the other planted to spring upward. The lion has a golden face with a wide, open mouth. It has a long mane of flaxen hair, and its body is green fabric with white concentric swirls. There are taiko drummers in the background.

Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka and the San Francisco Taiko Dojo (2014). Seiichi Tanaka is a Grand Master of the ancient Japanese form of ritual drumming known as taiko. This art-form involves physically demanding choreographic movement in tandem with percussive sound. Tanaka arrived to the U.S. in 1967, and he founded the first taiko dojo in North America in 1968. Practicing taiko for nearly five decades, Tanaka's first student at the dojo, Nosuke Akiyama, is also a master lion dancer and led the group's performance in the Lowell Folk Festival (2014).

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Lowell National Historical Park, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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