Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Performing Arts
Wed, Feb 19
|East Rec Center
Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in the WWII Internment Camps Q&A with Shirley Muramoto. Admission FREE


Time & Location
Feb 19, 2025, 3:00 PM
East Rec Center, 7902 Oakmont Dr, Santa Rosa, CA 95409, USA
About the event
The Asian Pacific Heritage and Culture Club invites you to the second our documentary film series featuring Shirley Muramoto and her film Hidden Legacy on Wednesday, February 19th at 3:00 PM at the East Rec Center. There is no charge and refreshments will be served.
Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto’s roots in koto music grew from the dusty desert American concentration camps during WWII. Her mother, Barbara Hori (aka Kazuko Muramoto), was incarcerated at 9 years old with her family, yet still learned to play the ancient instrument from fellow internees at Topaz and Tule Lake prison camps. In these desolate prisons, Barbara learned to play the koto by rote, with finger picks made of cow bones and tuning bridges carved by her grandfather from scraps of wood and toothbrush handles. It became the music of survival.
It has been 82 years since the Executive Order 9066 during World War…