How To Use Samisen In A Sentence
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They enter o-chayas/okiyas at a young age to learn the traditional arts - dance, music, which is performed mostly on stringed instruments like the samisen and the koto, along with conversational and entertaining arts.
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Special students, myself included, dressed in matsuri coats and played the large taiko drums, while others placed samisen and fue for the crowds.
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So they left the company of the light and music of the Tea House and samisen and trudged back into the darker, quieter, and somehow muddier streets that lead from the town.
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She turned her head slightly and noticed a samisen propped up against one corner of the room.
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The wizened grandma in the corner strikes up a geisha love song on her samisen.
Ukiyo
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It is most effective when traditional instruments, such as the samisen, are used.
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Ryukyu shogi tsuba Ryukyuan shogoin turnip tsubo sabi shogun Tsuga sakai, adj. shogunate tsugaresinol sakaki shoji tsunami sake shomio tsurugi sakura Showa tsutsugamushi samisen shoya disease samsien shoyu tsutsugamushi mite samurai shubunkin tsutsumu san Shuha, adj. tycoon Sanda ware sika udo sanpaku, adj.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
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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.
Puppet Love
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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.
Puppet Love
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Finally, just as we had engaged a Japanese orchestra, and as the first strains of the samisens and taikos were rising, through the paper-walls came a wild howl from the street.
Chapter 16
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The geisha, with her face whitened with powder, and her lips painted a bright red, and her elaborately-dressed hair full of ornaments, sits down to a sort of guitar called a samisen and sings, but her song has no music in it.
Peeps at Many Lands: Japan
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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. ...
Tak Shindo: FAR EAST GOES WESTERN
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There had been few artistic entertainments of any sort-the only music, besides her inconsequential samisen demonstration, had been the guests' drunken singing to a geisha's sake-affected strumming.
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The room was silent save for the haunting cry of a samisen's vibrations, and the occasional trade of words between patrons.
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Thematically as well as visually, this image also derives to some extent from Japanese prints, especially those of Utamaro, who often portrayed women playing the samisen, a banjo-like instrument.
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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.
Puppet Love
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Special students, myself included, dressed in matsuri coats and played the large taiko drums, while others placed samisen and fue for the crowds.
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Sugiyama however is captured and with his family meets a filthy torture death and I don't mean waterboarding, stress positions or loud samisen music, however he will not betray Toranaga-sama by withdrawing his resignation and allowing him to be impeached and invited to commit seppuku.
"It became clear to me to me that it would be very difficult day in and day out to serve in this Cabinet," says Judd Gregg, withdrawing.
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I noted, for example: gingko No ginkgo noh jiujitsu oban jujitsu obang jinricksha samisen jinrikshaw samsien jinriksha Shin ricksha Shin-shu rickshaw shoyu rikisha soy keyaki kiaki I must also question whether all the words listed by Cannon are really Japanese loanwords.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
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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
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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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.
Ukiyo
