NOUN
- a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum
How To Use shamisen In A Sentence
- The small, intimate restaurant glowed with the lit gas lanterns; the shamisen player played a beautifully grotesque arrangement of the centuries old song that probably had no end.
- A shamisen, according to my programme notes, is respected as a traditional art form throughout the world. Times, Sunday Times
- Autumn has shamisen, harvest is sweet. is the Xiangxiang. Autumn is the Shuangshuang.
- The shamisen is usually played with a single string, or by plucking an open string for a droning effect while the melody's picked our on one of the other strings, so hearing the fuller chords and harmony notes from these two instruments was a cool experience. Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert
- The shamisen is a smaller three-stringed instrument that is played like a viola. Geisha, A Life
- Her husband had played the snakeskin shamisen, called the sanshin in Okinawan. October 2006
- Hahn-Powell says he had no aptitude for the rhythm required of taiko, but the shamisen was another instrument entirely. The University of Alabama
- There are hints of free-flowing jazz drumming, while a frenetic shamisen sequence conjures up the gritty majesty of the blues. Times, Sunday Times
- Emerging from a door behind a screen was a geisha; in her arms was a shamisen.
- Weizhi will Garlic Puree sauce, ginger Weizhi, green peppers or shamisen formed to reconcile the green.
