Tsugaru Jongara Bushi. Posted: May 10, 2025 | Last updated: May 10, 2025. The Hirosaki Tsugaru Shamisen Tournament features the traditional Tsugaru Jongara Bushi performance.

About 100 years ago in northern Japan, a new shamisen – called Tsugaru-shamisen – was born, a hardier version of the instrument made of dog skin instead of the lighter cat skin.

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 ...

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, ...

Sato Michiyoshi KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Japanese musician Sato Michiyoshi will demonstrate the versatility of the shamisen at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in Western Michigan University's Dalton Center ...

Agatsuma Hiromitsu (Shamisen･Vocal) Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Agatsuma Hiromitsu began playing the Tsugaru shamisen at six and quickly gained acclaim, winning numerous competitions in the ...

Etsuro Ono (Tsugaru-Shamisen) Shunsuke Kimura (Bamboo flute) It will have been impossible to ignore the terrible events unfolding in Japan since the earthquake and tsunami struck last Friday.

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At Tsugaru Joppari Isariya Sakaba in Aomori City, ... The air is always filled with the strumming of a Tsugaru shamisen, a guitarlike stringed instrument.” — Yukari Sakamoto, ...

Wagakki Band members Suzuhana, Beni Ninagawa (Tsugaru-shamisen), Kurona (wadaiko, Japanese drums), Machiya (guitar & vocals), and Wasabi (drums) sat down with Billboard Japan and spoke candidly ...