Japan Society announces its 2014-2015 Performing Arts Season featuring works by visionary artists in music, dance and theater. In this season, the Performing Arts Program presents two large-scale ...

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 ...

They want to introduce the shamisen to the world, with the hope that the instrument will be picked up by more people, and that the art itself won’t die off. That’s why they recruited world-renowned ...

Makoto Nishimura is keeping the art of Japanese kabuki alive through an unlikely group of students. In Tokyo’s Meguro ward, Makoto Nishimura’s small apartment is a trove of traditional ...

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 ...

Tsugaru Shamisen artist KIJU - Photo: Courtesy of the organizer Shakuhachi is a type of flute made of bamboo which provides a variety of sounds while Shamisen is a three-string instrument. There are ...

Celebrating International Women's Day with new work by composer-performer Carolyn Connors, performance poet berni janssen, and shamisen artist Noriko Tadano.

This is a Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen, and today I am sharing what it is like to play it. I got my start 8 years ago under a duo known as The Yoshida Brothers, and today I want to share with you a ...

"The Shamisen Shinagawa 2019" is painted on the multi-story parking lot of Hotel Toyoko Inn near Tennozu Isle Station in Tokyo, by artist ARYZ. The mural was painted based on the ukiyoe "Mitate ...

Shamisen tones, filled with emotion, harmonize with the culture of traditional entertainment districts. The dwindling number of musicians has aroused the effort to keep the instrument and music alive.