A concert featuring Japanese instruments will take place at Hanoi’s Japan Foundation Centre on January 13. Kiju will use electronic equipment to play traditional tsugaru shamisen. (Photo: jpf.org.vn) ...

The loss of natural ivory could threaten traditional Japanese instruments ... that resemble long fingernails. Shamisen, a three-stringed, guitar-like instrument also requires ivory for the ...

Japan's Tsugaru Shamisen seems to be popping up everywhere lately. It's one of the most amazing Japanese instruments with a powerful and incredible sound. But it comes with a lot of hidden surprises..

Founded in 1908, the company uses traditional methods to make some 400 kinds of strings for Japanese instruments including shamisen and koto. Strings made in the particularly cold period are ...

Say hello to Famikoto, a group of musicians who use traditional Japanese instruments - such as the koto, shamisen and syakuhachi - to play some of the most memorable songs from the world of ...

The ancestors of the shamisen are the sanxian, the Chinese three-stringed instrument, and the sanshin, the snake-skin shamisen from the Ryukyu Kingdom. In western Japan, cat or dog skin was used for ...

Much of the nostalgic, hyper-real sounds emerging from the current wellspring of electronic music comes from a fictional, idealized Japan ... digital shamisen – evoke Japanese folk instruments ...

In front of the floats, Toshikazu Hashimoto, 43, and Colleen Schmuckal, 39, an American studying the shamisen Japanese stringed instrument, tied the knot on Sept. 22 as some 100 guests ...

In Inazuma’s case, miHoYo took elements of sakoku-era Japan. The usage of folk instruments such as the koto and shamisen create a unique sound that distinctly separates Inazuma from other areas ...