Please answer the following question: Facts:   - genres: traditional progressive rock , contemporary classical music japanese music , jazz , free improvisation ,    - years active: 1986 → present    - landscape: yes    - instruments: koto -rrb- , shamisen , electronics , voice -lrb- 21-string , 17-string , 18-string , 13-string    - caption: michiyo yagi playing a 21-string koto    - occupations: musician , educator    - labels: idiolect / baj , tzadik , zipangu , east works entertainment      - name: michiyo yagi    - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist    - image: yagi michiyo playing koto.jpg    - birth place: tokoname , aichi    - associated acts: peter tamaya honda , dōjō , hoahio , kokoo brötzmann , paal nilssen-love , akira sakata ,   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michiyo yagi .
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, a japanese musician , studied koto under the late tadao sawai , kazue sawai and satomi kurauchi , and graduated from the nhk professional training school for traditional musicians .between 1989 and 1990 , during her tenure as visiting professor of music at wesleyan university in connecticut , u.s.a. , she premiered numerous modern compositions for koto and came under the influence of maverick american composers such as john cage , conlon nancarrow , and john zorn .her solo koto cd `` shizuku '' was produced by zorn and released on the tzadik label in 1999 .in 2001 she recorded `` yural '' with her koto ensemble paulownia crush for the east works label .under the auspices of the japan foundation , yagi toured russia with this ensemble in the fall of 2004 .an eclectic musician , yagi has frequently appeared on japanese tv and has performed at the moers jazz , festival international de musique actuelle de victoriaville , archipel , bang on a can , tokyo summer , vision , punkt , instal , and music unlimited festivals .yagi 's koto has been featured in ex-judy and mary guitarist/singer takuya 's rock band , and she has recorded and appeared onstage with ayumi hamasaki , one of japan 's best-selling pop singers .yagi was a founding member of the quartet koto vortex with fellow sawai apprentices yoko nishi , miki maruta and etsuko takezawa , as well as kokoo , a trio which performs originals and progressive rock covers exclusively on traditional japanese instruments .she was also one-third of the avant-pop girl group hoahio which recorded two cd 's for tzadik .yagi is one of the few improvising koto players on the international stage .she has performed with mark dresser , john zorn , peter brötzmann , elliott sharp , han bennink , akira sakata , kazuhisa uchihashi -lrb- altered states -rrb- , natsuki kido -lrb- bondage fruit -rrb- , fred frith , chris cutler , otomo yoshihide , saadet turkoz , ned rothenberg , hoppy kamiyama , samm bennett , yuji katsui -lrb- rovo -rrb- , lauren newton , hans reichel ,...