Tak Shindo takes Western-Themed standards and rearranges them to feature classic Oriental instruments such as samisen, koto, gong, flute, temple blocks, and tree cymbals. From Wordnik.com. [Tak Shindo: FAR EAST GOES WESTERN] Reference
Watch for his great piece on Appalacian samisen. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to Ampontan! » Japundit Blog] Reference
Ananthos 'playing reminded Jon-Tom more of samisen music than guitar. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Gate]
We ate in silence, against a backdrop of samisen music and foreign chatter. From Wordnik.com. [When the Bough Breaks] Reference
Yuki plays the samisen, which may be regarded as the national female instrument, and Haru goes to a teacher daily for lessons on the same. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
The samisen player leaves, too, but not before she removes the screen in the corner to reveal a futon, the top quilt folded back in invitation. From Wordnik.com. [Ukiyo] Reference
She remembered being a young girl at the Dontaku Festival, the street full of people in bright-colored costumes playing samisen and beating drums. From Wordnik.com. [The 5th Horseman]
Oriental Tea-Pot in Regent Street, with samisen-players between four and six, and Japanese attendants who take the change on their hands and knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
A bell rings, the lights dim and a samisen (a three-stringed lute) starts to play as the performance of "Shinjû Ten no Amijima" (Double Suicide at Amijima Temple) begins. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet Love] Reference
Many bunraku fan sites, such as the blogs Mannaka Na Hibi (kayabatyou. blog11.fc2.com) and Yoshida Tamame San Ouen (tamamefun. seesaa.net), are linked to sites of reciters, puppeteers and even samisen players. From Wordnik.com. [Puppet Love] Reference
The crowd wear their gayest kimonos, and the moosmes are brilliant in flowered or striped silks and splendid sashes, and the air is full of the rattle of the shuffling clogs and the tinkling samisen played in almost every booth. From Wordnik.com. [Peeps at Many Lands: Japan] Reference
Japanese chess, story-telling, and the samisen fill up the early part of the evening, but later, an agonising performance, which they call singing, begins, which sounds like the very essence of heathenishness, and consists mainly in a prolonged vibrating. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Once she had been fairly well to do, and had learned the samisen when a girl. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
Purple-Eyes brought her samisen quite without suggestion from Garland, and said with naivete. From Wordnik.com. [Purple-Eyes] Reference
A woman carrying a samisen, and accompanied by a little boy seven or eight years old, came to my house to sing. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
In this the performer was generally a woman, and the instrument on which she accompanied herself was the samisen. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Dancing-girls climbed on board and feasted with them, and sang to the sound of the samisen, and played with them the game of ken. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
Attenuated in the samisen of goalmouth lodgment heroically the sensitiser of shortstop verboseness and a ropewalker in symphoricarpos. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Some form the orchestra, under the direction of a woman of uncertain age; there are several samisen, and a tiny drum played by a child. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
They sing as they play, facing each other, and clap their hands, and fling out their fingers at intervals with little cries and the samisen keep time. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference
The woman sat down on my doorstep, tuned her samisen, played a bar of accompaniment, -- and a spell descended upon the people; and they stared at each other in smiling amazement. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
On another a daimiyo’s daughter, in robes of cloth of gold with satin sleeves richly flowered, was playing on the samisen. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Sang, and played the samisen. From Wordnik.com. [Free Fantasia on Japanese Themes] Reference
Ignavia, samisen, bandages, wax. ". From Wordnik.com. Reference
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