Please check out their website by clicking HERE Read about the various members of the band. You can find out about them by clicking below on their name, or click on Kimaya, June and Dan's pictures shown here. To hear clips from their various c.d. After you have heard the great songs, you can purchase this c.d. You can purchase and hear various cuts from Hiroshima's various c.d.
Nobody really knows when it was introduced to Japan.
It probably came over with the migration of people from mainland Asia. It is known that the barrel- shaped body originally came from India through China, Mongolia, Southeast Asia and Korea. The inside cavity is shaped like a ball with the two ends cut off. The hitting surface is cow skin, specially processed and skinned to remove the hair. It is then soaked in water and stretched by extreme pressure over the ends and attached by large headed tacks.