Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive | Japan
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Rieko Hirosawa sits on a stone bench outside her home, tunes her instrument and takes a deep breath. She unleashes an impossibly high note while her bachi plectrum slaps the three strings of her shamisen, […]