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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Noriko Tadano, an Adelaide-based Japanese shamisen (Japanese three stringed traditional instrument) artist, will perform for OzAsia and Anime GO! in Adelaide this month. Ms. Tadano moved to Melbourne ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 instrument manufacturing company Marusan Hashimoto in the city of Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, is very busy making strings for the shamisen, the koto and other instruments. Strings make sounds by ...

When Catriona Sturton first arrived in Japan in August 2000, she knew very little about Japan or its culture. Little did the 24-year-old assistant language teacher know that she would become a skilled ...