This is actually our mapeh presentation. We're already done discussing it in our class, so I decided to share this powerpoint to be a little help to those who need it.

1. Taiko Drum
Festival

3. Kodo
- conveys two
meaning;
heartbeat and
Children of the
Drum

4. The Taiko
dr ummer
is called
Uchite.

6. * Taiko dr um
fest ival usual l y
last for 1hour
and 4 0 minutes.

7. History of
Taiko
Drum

8. 1969
• Za Ondekoza created a new kind of taiko group totally dedicated to
taiko drumming as a way of life.
• Za Ondekoza is credited with bringing taiko to audiences
worldwide
1968
• Seiichi Tanaka formed the first North American Taiko group, the
San Francisco Taiko Dojo and around the same time, Kinnara Taiko
from the Senshin Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles, created a
uniquely American hybrid – Japanese American Buddhist Taiko.
1981
• The original members of Za Ondekoza went on to form Kodo

9. Costumes
andP rops

10. Tabi

11. PropsChime