Editing Taiko (section)

===Brazil===
[[File:Taiko on stage 2.jpg|thumb|right|Performance of the composition "Zero" by Brazilian group Seiryu Daiko in Fukuoka, Japan|alt=Members of Brazilian group Seiryu Daiko performing on stage with a variety of taiko.]]

The introduction of ''kumi-daiko'' performance in Brazil can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s in São Paulo.{{sfn|Lorenz|2007|p=102}} [[Tangue Setsuko]] founded an eponymous taiko dojo and was Brazil's first taiko group;{{sfn|Lorenz|2007|p=102}} [[Setsuo Kinoshita]] later formed the group Wadaiko Sho.{{sfn|Lorenz|2007|p=26}} Brazilian groups have combined native and [[Rhythm in Sub-Saharan Africa|African drumming techniques]] with taiko performance. One such piece developed by Kinoshita is called ''Taiko de Samba'', which emphasizes both Brazilian and Japanese aesthetics in percussion traditions.{{sfn|Lorenz|2007|pp=115, 130–139}} Taiko was also popularized in Brazil from 2002 through the work of Yukihisa Oda, a Japanese native who visited Brazil several times through the [[Japan International Cooperation Agency]].<ref name=Horikawa>{{cite web|last=Horikawa|first=Helder|url=http://www.nippobrasil.com.br/especial/537.shtml|title=Matérias Especiais – Jornal NippoBrasil|publisher=Nippobrasil|access-date=22 August 2013|language=pt|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414144121/http://www.nippobrasil.com.br/especial/537.shtml|archive-date=14 April 2011}}</ref>

The Brazilian Association of Taiko (ABT) suggests that there are about 150 taiko groups in Brazil and that about 10–15% of players are non-Japanese; Izumo Honda, coordinator of a large annual festival in São Paulo, estimated that about 60% of all taiko performers in Brazil are women.<ref name=Horikawa />