Ramos studied shakuhachi in Japan under several teachers, including Kaoru Kakizakai, Teruo Furuya, Atsuya Okuda and more recently Yoshinobu Taniguchi.
Kakizakai has performed widely in Japan and abroad, including as shakuhachi soloist in Toru Takemitsu's November Steps with the NHK Symphony Orchestra.
He has lived and studied shakuhachi in Japan under the discipline of the Master Kaoru Kakizakai in The International Shakuhachi Kenshunkan School and with Kohachiro Miyata one of Japan's leading players of the shakuhachi.
Kaoru Kakizakai | Kaoru Yumi | Kaoru Shimamura | Kaoru Kobayashi (actor) | Kaoru Kobayashi | Kaoru Ishikawa | Kamiya Kaoru |