Live performance of Japanese shamisen music featuring Kiki of Tsugaru Shamisen Girls. The video captures a live shamisen set ...

A trip built around the Resort ShirakamiIn the autumn of 2024, our family of four took a 4-day, 3-night trip to Tohoku. This ...

As serendipitous first encounters go, the story of how the Japanese Blues Cowboy met the Tsugaru Shamisen Player isn’t nearly as thrilling as the music the two make together as George and Noriko. If ...

It will have been impossible to ignore the terrible events unfolding in Japan since the earthquake and tsunami struck last Friday. Three weeks ago though, when Japanese musicians Etsuro Ono and ...

The makers of this ancient instrument were near to closure. But could it get a new lease of life? Katsuhiro Otaki confesses he can’t play a note on the shamisen, a three-stringed instrument whose ...

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 ...

Since debuting with her 1976 album JAPANESE GIRL, Yano Akiko has been a trailblazer in blending Japanese culture with her unique musical style, including collaborations with Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Tatsu Aoki, shamisen, with curator Kit Brooks Follow one of Japan’s signature musical instruments, a three-stringed lute called the shamisen, through the many worlds in which it has played a prominent ...

The largest shamisen ensemble consists of 1,911 participants, achieved by Japan Folk Music and Dance Association (Japan), at Nippon Budokan in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, on 23 October 2016. This is their ...