Timo Korhonen plays Sakura by Toshio Hosokawa live

Hosokawa gives fantastic perspectives into this evergreen song, which originally was no song at all! “Sakura” (cherry blossoms) originates in the Edo period, c. 1600-1800. The melody was originally used as the koto playing exercise for children. It became a song during the later Meiji period, the end of the 1800s, when the text was added to the melody. “Music is a place where notes and silence meets.“ Toshio Hosokawa