About Me

Yukihiko Yotsukura

Yukihiko Yotsukura is a musician, sound artist, and enthusiast of traditional folk performing arts from Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan, currently based in the Tohoku region. He began his solo project under his own name in 2019.

Using field recordings, shinobue flute, and guitar, he creates music inspired by the folk culture, nature, and everyday lives of people in Tohoku. Moving across ambient, post-classical, and improvised music, he explores the relationship between sound, bodily sensation, and the memories held within places.

While moving between personal expression and communal tradition, he seeks sounds that touch the sense of “here and now.”

He is also active as a festival musician in local folk performing arts groups, including the Ogatsu Dobayashi Shishimai Misosaku Preservation Group and the Sendai Oni Kenbai Enthusiasts Association.

In addition, under the name “yukki,” he performs as a member of the ambient folk unit “Coupie” and the experimental improvisation trio “Jai Machine.”

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Contact
yukkin.y@gmail.com

Main Activities

• 2019: Released the compilation EP "Musics for Bamboos" with Nami Sato.

• March 2022: Released the collaborative EP "Kikoetekuru Naminoyouni - EP" with BoomPam (Israel) as Spirit of Tohoku (featuring Eimi Shirasaki, ex-Shang Shang Typhoon, Gyozanryu-Mitobe Shishi Odori, Yukihiko Yotukura).

• September 2022: Performed in Israel as BoomPam + Spirit of Tohoku.

• May 2023: Participated as a Shinobue(Japanese bamboo flute) and Wadaiko(Japanese Drum) player in Maia Hirasawa's "Boom! Unite".
  

• May 2024: Released Single "Interplay"

• Oct 2025: Released the collaboration single "Resonance#1" with Kita Kohei

• March 2026: Released the collaboration album "静寂光りて Shijima Hikarite" with Kita Kohei

• Apr 2026: Released Single "Been here 01 - Water of Yamanokami"

Other activities:

• Since 2008, active as a guitarist in the folk ambient duo "Coupie".

• Since 2012, active as a guitarist in the experimental improvisational music unit "Jai Machine".

• Since 2011, involved in creating Japanese taiko drums with the "Ogatsu Date no Kurofune Taiko Preservation Society".

• Since 2013, participating in the "Ogatsu Dobayashi Shishimai Misosaku Preservation Group".

• Since 2025, involved in folk and regional performing arts with the "Sendai Oni Kenbai Enthusiasts' Association".