Uma Ebina （蝦名宇摩） Her father was a painter and a pioneer of the hippie movement in Japan. She was born and raised in the commune of Amami Oshima. When she was young, she dropped out of elementary school, and traveled around Japan and earned her travel expenses by dancing on the street. She left her hometown at the age of 15 and began to learn the traditional arts of Japanese drums “Chichibu yatai bayashi”. When she was 16 years old, she was strongly attracted by the beauty and the intensity of the sound of Tsugaru shamisen, and became a disciple of Banshu Ebina who is a master of it. During her training period of more than 20 years, she acquired the skills of Tsugaru shamisen, Shakuhachi, Singing, Folk drum and Shima Uta which is a unique group of folk song pass down in Amami Oshima, her hometown. In March 2011, the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant caused radioactive material to scatter over a wide area. She feared its influence, evacuated and migrated with her two daughters from Saitama to Okayama prefecture. Recently, she has been performing at the events, while opening a folk song classroom in her house. Also, concerned about the health condition of children in Fukushima, she performs the recreation camp in Okayama every summer since 2012.