Legacy
Ichimaru died at the age of 90 in 1997, leaving a legacy of traditional folk music for modern day Japanese.
Throughout her career she recorded two hundred and seventy pieces of ha-uta, zokkyoku melodies and ko-uta and won many prestigious awards including Geijutsusai Shorei Sho in 1970, Shiju Hoso (Imperial Order of the Purple Ribbon) in 1972 and Kun Yonto Zui-ho Sho (4th Imperial Order of Precious Treasures) in 1981.
Her legacy continues to live on in the form of a generous donation of kimono, obi and memoribillia by Mrs. Fumi Suzuki, a friend of Ichimaru, to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in Canada and also by donations given to the Iida Museum in Nagano.
The May–June 2003 issue of the magazine "Arts of Asia" contained a twenty page article about Ichimaru, which included an eight page spread dedicated to some of her kimono.
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