shamisen

How To Use shamisen In A Sentence

• Men take off their jackets behind a folding screen set up as a partition and step into the room to the accompaniment of a rhythm of '' shamisen '' three-stringed musical instrument played by geisha. Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
• There is also a solo musician who sits by the chanter and plays the shamisen.
• The shamisen is a lute instrument with three strings.
• He splits his time between MoS and Shamalamacord, a duo where he plays shamisen with an accordionist. Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert
• The one really distinctive thing about this track is that every time the vocalist sings "Zubat is Coming!", there's a crusty, reverbed, ancient pluck on a shamisen: it's perfectly timed, and one of the few times actual Japanese instruments are used in this series.
• I'm posing with a snakeskin shamisen, but it's all for show! Take a Break
• He plays the futozao shamisen, a three-stringed instrument from which she extracts a soft array of sounds, from subdued scrapes, to slow, meditative plucking, to ratcheting and vibrating string-bends.
• The shamisen is a lute instrument with three strings.
• The musician twangs away on a three-stringed shamisen.
• While he is enjoying a pastoral scene on the riverbank with the shamisen player and the children - the film's most peaceful moment - he sits down to drink with his other servant.