Michiyo Yagi

Michiyo Yagi is a Japanese koto player and composer from Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture, known for taking the koto into free improvisation and jazz. Trained in classical koto with Tadao and Kazue Sawai, she plays the 21-string koto and the 17-string bass koto, both modified for amplification and often used with electronics and voice, and has worked at length with the Norwegian free jazz scene. Yagi's solo album Shizuku came out on John Zorn's Tzadik label in 1999, and she was a member of the trio Hoahio with Haco and Sachiko M, who also recorded for Tzadik.