{"id":625,"date":"2012-01-03T17:17:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T08:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=625"},"modified":"2018-03-21T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T14:50:24","slug":"two-girls-from-singapores-shamisen-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/two-girls-from-singapores-shamisen-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Two girls from Singapores&#8217; Shamisen experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/geiyukanexperience1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full\" \/>Two girls from Singapore emailed our web site and said they, &#8220;want to hear the beautiful sounds of shamisen on weekdays&#8221;. I asked <a href=\"\/contents03+index.id+23.htm\">Shamisen Geiyukan<\/a>, which opens only on Sunday and national holidays usually. Then, they held a special live show for them.<br clear=all><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/uploads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/geiyukanexperience2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" \/>The girls enjoyed listening to the live sound of shamisen and Hauta (pop songs in Edo period) and then, also could experience playing the shamisen. They learned to play a Japanese song &#8220;Sakura, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)&#8221; by the shamisen a bit.<br clear=all><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-639\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/visitmatsumoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/shamisens.jpg?resize=240%2C159&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" class=\"size-full\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New shamisens in Matsuno<\/figcaption><\/figure>They were interested in shamisen, so I took them to the shamisen craftshop Matsuno in Nakamachi. We talked with one young guy who was making a new shamisen.<br \/>\nI hope it was a special experience with Japanese traditional culture for them.<br \/>\nShamisen Geiyukan is very small space but the players are very kind to foreigners and you can feel and experience a nice atmosphere. Geiyukan is featured in the French famous guidebook Michelin Green Guide Japan.<br clear=all><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/two-girls-from-singapores-shamisen-experience\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/culture-art\/two-girls-from-singapores-shamisen-experience\/\" data-text=\"Two girls from Singapores&#039; Shamisen experience\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two girls from Singapore emailed our web site and said they, &#8220;want to hear the beautiful sounds of shamisen on weekdays&#8221;. I asked Shamisen Geiyukan, which opens only on Sunday and national holidays usually. Then, they held a special live show for them. The girls enjoyed listening to the live sound of shamisen and Hauta (pop songs in Edo period) and then, also could experience playing the shamisen. They learned to play a Japanese song &#8220;Sakura, Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)&#8221; by the shamisen a bit. They were interested in shamisen, so I took them to the shamisen craftshop Matsuno in Nakamachi. 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