TOKYO -- A unique musical instrument similar to a traditional three-stringed Japanese shamisen, but smaller, lighter and easier to handle, has been developed by a small Tokyo manufacturer as a new ...

The shamisen is a beautiful Japanese instrument, made up of a rounded body that’s typically bound in some kind of animal leather, a long neck, and three strings that are plucked with a large pick. It ...

AMMAN — Seeking to spread Japan's traditional and folk music around the world, and promote intercultural dialogue through singing and playing different genres of music, Japanese singer Akari Mochizuki ...

Renowned bunraku shamisen player Tsurusawa Tozo will give a joruri performance at a temple in Taito Ward, Tokyo, on Oct. 12, organizers said. Tsurusawa will perform the play, "Chikagoro Kawara-no Tate ...

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, ...

The International House of Japan in Roppongi, Tokyo, will bring a 270-year-old genre of music to life when it presents "Song, Story and Shamisen: Tokiwazu and the Soul of Japanese Music" on Feb. 9.

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 ...

How's this for Japanese fusion? The ancient shamisen instrument, in the hands of Masahiro Nitta, duelling with its Irish counterparts, writes Arminta Wallace Think of Japanese culture, and you think ...

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 ...

From the time the Yoshida brothers were young, they had to live out their father's frustrated musical ambitions. He forced them to kneel, for five or six hours at a stretch, and play an ancient, ...

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 ...