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Funakawa Toshio

船川 利夫

Funakawa Toshio
3/10/1931 - 10/4/2008

Composer - Shakuhachi

Funakawa Toshio was born in Shimane in 1931, he began to study Tozan shakuhachi at the age of 16 with Matsuda Suizan. In 1956, the year when he received a shihan rank, he moved to Tokyo and studied with a koto player named Furukawa Taro. He was awarded first prize for composition at the Tokyo Shinbun hogaku competition along with the Minister of Education prize, and the NHK prize.

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Umi - The Works of Funakawa Toshio Vol. 1

A selection of compositions by Funakawa Toshio, featuring a wide variety of guest performers.