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 ...

Today we are taking a look inside a real Japanese Shamisen shop, from Tsugaru Shamisen, to the Japanese Kokyu and so many more original products, we get to explore this shop before it even opens ...

Kubo and the Two Strings tells the story of a young boy with a magical two-string shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese lute) on a quest to reclaim what is rightfully his father's armor — a ...

The Tsugaru shamisen - in case you didn't know - is a traditional three-stringed, banjo-like instrument which originated in the Aomori prefecture of northern Japan. It is, however, a long, long ...

An African-American actress dressed as a modern geisha slowly glides across the stage, while a male Japanese kabuki performer, dressed as a traditional geisha, dances to the tune of a three-string ...