{"id":14377,"date":"2025-04-23T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14377"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:25:05","slug":"alex-wills-taiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/alex-wills-taiko","title":{"rendered":"Alex Wills: Taiko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">This semester, I had the opportunity to participate in the Fujinomori Preservation Society\u2019s Taiko Drumming Practice! Along with one of my fellow KCJS students, I learned the basics of how to play Taiko while also learning more about its significance in Japanese culture. Over the course of the semester, we prepared a roughly 2 minute long piece and performed it for the group, making connections with the team members and practicing our Japanese along the way. At first it was a little intimidating, but once you\u2019re there, it gets to be very fun and rewarding. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-193x89.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-193x89.jpeg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-590x272.jpeg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-768x354.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-1536x708.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-2048x944.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8278-500x231.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This semester, I had the opportunity to participate in the Fujinomori Preservation Society\u2019s Taiko Drumming Pr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/alex-wills-taiko\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14377"},"categories":[5,34,8,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14379,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions\/14379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}