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Women warming themselves at a kotatsu

Women warming themselves at a kotatsu

Geisha sit in a kotatsu heater and practice songs on a shamisen lute. Since no pick is being used, this is a sansen or jamisen. The sansen is a musical instrument of the Okinawa and Amami area and is slightly smaller than the shamisen.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number91‐47‐0]

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A girl playing the shamisen

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]

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