![]() ![]() My mother’s great-grandparents emigrated from Japan to Hawaii, and later my grandparents moved to California. My mom is a Yonsei, fourth generation, which makes me a Gosei, fifth gen. One of the reasons our family became interested in taiko was because it provided a unique artistic opportunity to be closer to our ethnic and cultural identity as Japanese Americans. Ever since, we’ve both been highly invested in the taiko community: we continue to take lessons at LATI, practice with a variety of different local groups, and participated and performed in two North American Taiko Conferences. It wasn’t until some 35 years later in 2015 when she picked-up taiko drum sticks, or bachi, again at Asano Taiko U.S.’s Los Angeles Taiko Institute (LATI), after I began taking lessons there the year prior. She only stuck with taiko for a short time back then. My mother, Wendy, first tried taiko in the early 80’s with my grandfather, who played with a then-new taiko group at the East San Gabriel Valley Japanese Community Center. Two such members striving to innovate and celebrate their Japanese American heritage happen to be my mother and I-through a cultural fusion of taiko with Hawaiian hula and electronic music production, respectively. There are many taiko players in the non-professional taiko community who are also exploring new cultural collaborations and pushing boundaries. Kenny Endo, San Jose Taiko, TaikoProject, and Unit Souzou, just to name a few, have made significant contributions to the art by drawing upon their own unique backgrounds and experiences in other world cultures. In the last few decades, there has been no shortage of innovation in the melting pot that is North America. The invention of the popular style of ensemble taiko drumming-called kumidaiko-is credited to jazz drummer Daihachi Oguchi, who introduced his modern musical expertise to traditional taiko in the 1950’s in Japan. One way taiko has progressed is through its meshing with other cultures-like how jazz was born in New Orleans by combining popular genres like ragtime and blues with African and Afro-American music culture. Rich ethnic, cultural, and religious traditions, as well as diverse artistic innovation have shaped the art form of taiko, with the community surrounding it is steadily growing throughout the world. For others, the intense physical and musical spectacle of professional ensembles such as KODO, Drum Tao, or TaikoProject come to mind. After you’ve installed Node.When thinking of Japanese taiko drumming, some people might visualize a drummer standing on top of a yagura tower, accompanying bon odori dancers at Japanese cultural festivals. You only need Node.js installed in your system to start writing Taiko scripts in JavaScript. Here’s a list of a few unique features that sets it apart from other browser automation tools. Taiko is built ground up to test modern web applications. With Taiko there’s no need for id/css/xpath selectors or adding explicit waits (for XHR requests) in test scripts. ![]() Taiko’s smart selectors make tests reliable by adapting to changes in the structure of your web application. Tests written in Taiko are highly readable and maintainable. Taiko is a Node.js library with a clear and concise API to automate Chromium based browsers(Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera) and Firefox. Taiko is a free and open source browser automation tool built by the team behind Gauge from ThoughtWorks. A Node.js library for testing modern web applications ![]()
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