Composer Miya Masaoka has started playing the "Laser Koto," a futuristic version of the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, the Koto, that's been around since the 8th century. Masaoka outfitted ...

When a guy playing a traditional Japanese instrument performs with a bunch of pickin’-and-grinnin’ American bluegrass musicians Sunday at the Commodore Theatre in Portsmouth, it won’t sound as weird ...

Watch virtuoso Yumi Kurosawa perform and discuss music for the koto, a Japanese stringed instrument, alongside woodblock prints and ink paintings from our museum’s collections showing the instrument ...