Toshiko Yonekawa has been played on NTS in shows including Silk Road Sounds, featured first on 19 March 2022. Songs played include Konpira Fune Fune, 田原坂　Tabaruzaka and 赤城の子守唄.

Born 1913 in Himezi city, Hyogo prefecture, as the eldest daughter of Yonekawa Kin’o (1883-1969). She received lessons of koto and sangen from her farther. He was the first Ikuta school koto and sangen player who started artistic activity in Tokyo in Taisyo period (1912-1926). He himself was an excellent musician and performed traditional repertoire with a striking accuracy in pitches and rhythms. He was also creative in composition, inventor of the low-registered 13-stringed koto and…