Patti Jo "PJ" Hirabayashi is one of the pioneers of the North American Taiko movement.
She serves as the Artistic Director and founding member of San Jose Taiko, the third taiko group to form in the United States.She and her husband Roy are recipients of a 2011 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.