Junko Ueda Website

Junko Ueda (born in Tokyo) is a Japanese singer and satsuma-biwa player, presenting Japanese traditional biwa epic storytelling and shomyo Buddhist chant. Ueda studied satsuma-biwa epic storytelling with the famous Kinshi Tsuruta (Satsuma-Biwa Tsuruta-style) and Buddhist shomyo chant with Kôshin Ebihara (Tendai school). She studied composition (under Reiko Arima, Jôji Yuasa, Sei Ikeno) at the Tokyo College of Music. She has participated in the project of Reigaku Ensemble (ensemble of reconstructed instruments from Shôsô-in Imperial treasure house of 8th century) directed by the Tokyo National Theatre.