CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Tatsu Aoki, shamisen, with curator Kit Brooks Follow one of Japan’s signature musical instruments, a three-stringed lute called the shamisen, ...

Traditional female geigi ― a type of geisha ― in Niigata performed New Year dances at a local shrine on January 5, carrying ...

Acclaimed traditional gidayu-bushi (specific to bunraku puppet theater) shamisen player and avant-garde musician Yumiko Tanaka provides a thrilling soundscape to the silent film Crossroads (Jujiro, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The season commences in September with The Shamisen Sessions, four distinct music ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Japanese musician Sato Michiyoshi will demonstrate the versatility of the shamisen at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in Western Michigan University's Dalton Center Lecture Hall. The ...

Japanese shamisen master Sho Asano, 21, a native of Sendai, performed a private concert Oct. 29 hosted by recently arrived Japanese Consul General Jota Yamamoto at his Houston residence. A public ...

Hidejiro Honjoh has been trailblazing a new musical path for the shamisen, a three-stringed Japanese instrument, in Asia, Europe, and North America. At Bates, he will be presenting a program ...

This is a Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen, and today I am sharing what it is like to play it. I got my start 8 years ago under a duo known as The Yoshida Brothers, and today I want to share with you a bit ...

Sato Michiyoshi performs traditional and modern Japanese music on the shamisen. KALAMAZOO Mich.—On his second U.S. tour, Sato Michiyoshi will perform a unique blend of traditional and modern styles on ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using a participant-observer design, the researcher initiated a research project that sought to learn the pedagogical process in which a ...

WILLIAMSTOWN >> In a long gallery with the reflections of water rippling on the ceiling, one National Living Treasure will join minds with another. Takemoto Komanosuke, one of the first women to ...