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Sado Island

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Sado Island

Largest island in Niigata prefecture in the Sea of Japan, off the northwest coast of Honshu island, 35 km/22 mi from Niigata, area 857 sq km/331 sq mi; population (1990) 78,100. The chief settlement, Ryotsu, is ranked as a city in the smallest category, with a population of under 100,000, but it has an airport. Gold-mining dates from 1601 and still residually exists. Sado's tourist attractions include a scenic coastline, a distinctive folklore of songs and dances and the endangered Japanese crested ibis (toki). Sado was effectively an autonomous feudal province from 702 to 1876 and was used as a place of exile in the 12th and 16th centuries.
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Since their debut at the Berlin Festival in 1981, Kodo have given over 3100 performances on all five continents, spending about a third of the year overseas, a third touring in Japan and a third resting and preparing new material on Sado Island.
(CUL) JAPANESE DRUMMERS TO PERFORM IN ISTANBUL by Anadolu (Eskisehir, Turkey)
Last year's highlights included an appearance on BBC Last Night Of The Proms, a joint concert tour with the folk dance, song and drum group Hanayui from Sado Island, Japan, and the grand opening of their base: the Mugen Taiko Dojo, the first purpose-built Taiko Centre in the UK.
WALES: Japanese drums team on show by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
NIIGATA, Japan, April 29 Kyodo The first crested ibis chick of the year hatched Monday at a conservation center on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, the prefectural government said.
1st crested ibis chick of year hatches at Niigata center by Japan Weekly Monitor
 
 
 
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