A girl playing the shamisen

The shamisen lute originated in Okinawa as the jamisen. A musician named Nakanokoji of Sakai near Osaka remodeled the jamisen around 1570, and Yanagawa and Yatsuhashi established the shamisen as a musical instrument between 1624 and 1644. It was an easy instrument for young women. Two kinds of music were composed for the shamisen: narratives and songs.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number68‐15‐0]

• Product Code
• ILEA000320643

• Registered date
• 1900/12/31 00:19:00

• Credit
• Nagasaki University Library / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• Nagasaki University Library

• Media size
• 2048 × 3072 pixel

• Resolution
• dpi

• Deployment size
• 3.64(MB)*

• Special instruction
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