Toshiko Yonekawa

Toshiko Yonekawa (1913-2005) was a Japanese koto player and composer of the Ikuta school, born in Himeji. The eldest daughter of koto and shamisen master Kinō Yonekawa, she studied both instruments with him from early childhood, gave her first public concert at eight and later became the third head of the Kensokai, the group her father had founded. She was named a Living National Treasure in 1996.