How To Use Shamisen In A Sentence
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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.
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A shamisen, according to my programme notes, is respected as a traditional art form throughout the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Autumn has shamisen, harvest is sweet. is the Xiangxiang. Autumn is the Shuangshuang.
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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
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The shamisen is a smaller three-stringed instrument that is played like a viola.
Geisha, A Life
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Her husband had played the snakeskin shamisen, called the sanshin in Okinawan.
October 2006
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Hahn-Powell says he had no aptitude for the rhythm required of taiko, but the shamisen was another instrument entirely.
The University of Alabama
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There are hints of free-flowing jazz drumming, while a frenetic shamisen sequence conjures up the gritty majesty of the blues.
Times, Sunday Times
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Emerging from a door behind a screen was a geisha; in her arms was a shamisen.
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Weizhi will Garlic Puree sauce, ginger Weizhi, green peppers or shamisen formed to reconcile the green.
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He killed him, and I am certain that was her, sitting upon that stage, playing that shamisen.
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Japanese music without the shamisen would be like a brass band without trumpets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The shamisen usually is heard playing traditional Japanese folk songs, and as accompaniment for kabuki and bunraku theater.
Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert
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During his teenage years, it was a fashion of that era to perform ‘karate and bo dances’ accompanied to the music of the shamisen.
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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
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Brazil Sao Paulo main production. Gan, sour, bitter shamisen neutral, moderately sour, tastes special and elegant.
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The shamisen is a lute instrument with three strings.
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She played her favorite tunes for us on her shamisen (three-stringed Japanese banjo), wishing him a happy future.
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But as Sayuri says in the novel, you have to look at how well they play the shamisen, and how much they know about tea ceremony, before you determine whether they ought properly to call themselves geisha.
Arthur Golden - An interview with author
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The rest of the day is taken up with lessons in dancing, singing and playing the shamisen.
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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.
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The musician twangs away on a three-stringed shamisen.
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The shamisen is a lute instrument with three strings.
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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.
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I'm posing with a snakeskin shamisen, but it's all for show!
Take a Break
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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.
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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
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The shamisen is a lute instrument with three strings.
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There is also a solo musician who sits by the chanter and plays the shamisen.
