"The plucked zither derived from the Chinese guzheng spread through east Asia, arriving in Japan over 1400 years ago, and was incorporated into gagaku court music. As it was adapted over several hundred years, it became associated with blind musicians, notably the 17th-century performer Yatsuhashi Kengyō who is credited with making major adaptations to the instrument and for taking it from the courts to the common people. Similarly, Michio Miyagi (b. Kobe, April 7, 1894) was a blind virtuoso of the instrument who was both an innovator and preservationist of its lineage. ...
His recording of "Haro no Umi (Spring Sea)" in the 1930s with the touring French violinist Renée Chemet is strikingly similar to work produced a decade later by Eastward-looking Californian avant-gardists of the 1940s including Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and John Cage. ..."
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