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Ryōichirō Yoshida (吉田 良一郎, Yoshida Ryōichirō?, born 26 July 1977) and Kenichi Yoshida (吉田 健一, Yoshida Ken'ichi?, born 16 December 1979) were born in Noboribetsu in Hokkaido, Japan. The two brothers have played the shamisen from a very young age. They both began to study and play the shamisen from five years of age under Koka Adachi, learning the Minyō-shamisen style; from about 1989 they studied the Tsugaru-jamisen style under Takashi Sasaki.
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