Thank you for this information. 🤔 I fortunately played in UCLA’s Gagaku ensemble (hichiriki & koto) for six years in the 1990s. It was great to learn a few years ago that Gagaku is the world’s oldest continuously-living musical tradition. 🤔 (Especially in retrospect, I feel incredibly fortunate that I unexpectedly encountered the leader of that ensemble, Rev. Ikuko Yuge, when I visited UCLA’s music building on 6/11/2001. 🍀)