- The
sanshin (三線, lit. 'three strings') is a
Ryukyuan musical instrument and
precursor of the
mainland ****anese
shamisen (三味線).
Often likened to a banjo...
- The
kankara (かんから) or
kankara sanshin (literally "
sanshin from a can") is a ****anese three-stringed folk
plucked instrument,
initially an
improvised derivative...
-
dedicated shrine called a
sanshin-gak (Korean: 산신각; Hanja: 山神閣) or an
altar called a
sanshin-dan
dedicated to the
local sanshin. This nature-deity is typically...
- Even more
closely related is the
Okinawan sanshin,
which is also
covered in snakeskin. Additionally, the
sanshin and
sanxian share a
structurally similar...
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Okinawan music, and
prominently features the
sanshin. The
members of
Begin – Eishō Higa (比嘉栄昇) (
sanshin, vocals),
Masaru Shimabukuro (島袋優) (guitar), and...
- end of the 19th
century that the form
became standardized for
writing sanshin music.
Yakabi is
attributed to
having written the
earliest known, surviving...
-
Sanshin Zen
Community is a Soto Zen
sangha based at the
temple Sanshin-ji in Bloomington,
Indiana founded by
Shohaku Okumura. The
Sanshin Zen Community...
-
derivative of the
sanshin,
itself a
relative of the shamisen. The
major difference between a
sanshin and a
gottan is that the body of a
sanshin tends to be...
-
nationalised and
extended by the ****anese
Government Railways (JGR) and the
Sanshin Line
built by the JGR
between Onuka and ****ū Kōjiro. In 1936, the line...
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Kingdom (Okinawa) in the 16th century,
where it
developed into the
Okinawan sanshin (三線), from
which the
shamisen ultimately derives. It is
believed that the...
