My Name is Norm and I am the apprentice of the Yoshida Brothers. And this is the story of me working with a Japanese craftsman who built a traditional Japanese Shamisen for me. Supreme Court prepares ...

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, ...

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, ...

Playing the Tsugaru Shamisen at Tokyo's Mitama Matsuri and exploring the festival and Yasukuni Shrine afterwards! This was an opportunity that people can only experience once every 10 years. DEA ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dai Fujikura’s new work for shamisen, a three-stringed, fretless Japanese lute, premieres on Saturday. By Ryan Ebright In the late 1960s, not long ...

Composer and Bates music professor Hiroya Miura already had plenty on his plate when a music festival in the Czech Republic made him, as they say, an offer he couldn’t refuse. In addition to teaching ...

In partnership with Nexus Arts, the Australian String Quartet (ASQ) will perform a series of exclusive South Australian concerts with internationally acclaimed shamisen (a 3-string traditional ...