Minamitori is a name very well-known in the Taiko community. Guy has immense passion for the game, is very good at it (4th place in the 2016 Donder Championship!) and does both content creation for the game on Youtube, as well as running a business making handmade Taiko bachi which are, as I have heard myself, fine-tuned for high level play.
A couple months ago, I received a huge surprise in my email inbox. Minamitori himself had sent me a message! He was impressed with the work that me and the Taiko Time team had done to spread the fandom of Taiko no Tatsujin to a wider audience outside of Japan, and gifted me some of the handmade Taiko sticks from his workshop. To think our humble blog had gotten acknowledgement from him! Needless to say I was very excited at the chance to sample his craft.
