Artist: 高橋 竹山 (Chikuzan Takahashi)
Blind Japanese tsugaru-jamisen player. Born June 1910; died February 5, 1998. Largely responsible for the post-war boom in tsugaru-jamisen music. Before his death, he bequeathed his professional name to one of his female students who then became Takahashi Chikuzan II.
