Kunigami-gun Ginoza Village

Shamisen Zanmai in Okinawa Starting today, you too are a shamisen “connoisseur”

  • Music
  • shamisen
  • Sanshin (Three-string guitar)
  • Real-life event

Schedule

2022.12.11(日)

Open:13:30 Start:14:00

Venue

Ginoza Village Cultural Center Garaman Hall 〒904-1302 314-1 Ginoza Village, Ginoza-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa

Charge

Advance booking discount 2500 yen

3000 yen Same-day

Advance booking discount Students 1500 yen

Same-day students 2000 yen

Contents

Gidayu shamisen: Tsurusawa Tsugaei (Gidayu shamisen) /Tsurusawa Kaju (Gidayu shamisen) /Takemoto Etsuwaka (joruri)
Tsugaru shamisen: Anmi Dori (Yuka Yasunaka/Kimi Kindaichi)
Nagauta shamisen: Yoshimura Ijujiro (Nagauta shamisen) /Kineya Gosuke (Nagauta shamisen) /Kineya Shoichiro (song)
Sanshin (Three-string guitar): Makiko Yamauchi (Sanshin (Three-string guitar)) /Ayaka Shimoji (Sanshin (Three-string guitar)) /Reona Nagayama (Ryukyu dance)

●Gidayu shamisen
A thick shamisen that supports puppet joruri, which has taken root in various places, mainly in Osaka, Tokushima, and Awaji. A shamisen whose role is to tell a story together with the storyteller, Tayu. It has a wide range of expressions, from powerful bass to melancholy sounds.
Cast: Tsurusawa Tsugaei (Gidayu Shamisen) /Tsurusawa Kaju (Gidayu Shamisen) /Takemoto Etsuwaka (Joruri)

●Tsugaru shamisen
Shamisen is said to have been introduced to the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture and established in the early Meiji period. It was originally used as an accompaniment to folk songs, but in recent years, the activities of young musicians who perform improvised performances of only shamisen without songs have attracted attention.
Cast: Anmi Dori (Yuka Yasunaka/Kimi Kindaichi)

●Nagauta shamisen
A thin shamisen that supports nagauta, which has been handed down in Edo and has been handed down along with Kabuki. He is in charge of sound effects and background music such as dance accompaniment, scene depiction, psychological depiction, etc., and colors the play. It features a light and gorgeous tone.
Performers: Ijujiro Yoshimura (Nagauta shamisen) /Kineya Gosuke (Nagauta shamisen) /Kineya Shoichiro (song)

●Sanshin
The “three strings,” which were brought from China to Ryukyu at the end of the 14th century, became “Sanshin (Three-string guitar),” and it is an instrument that symbolizes Okinawan culture active in various music scenes such as kumidori and dance, folk songs, pop music, and other music scenes as court music. The origin of the shamisen.
Performers: Makiko Yamauchi (Sanshin (Three-string guitar)) /Ayaka Shimoji (Sanshin (Three-string guitar)) /Reona Nagayama (Ryukyu dance)

Performers

  • Anmi connoisseur
  • Shimoji Ayaka
  • Tsurusawa Tsugaei
  • Tsurusawa Kazu
  • Takemoto Etsuwaka
  • Yasunaka Yuka
  • Kindaichi Kimi
  • Yoshimura Ijujiro
  • Kineya Gosuke
  • Kineya Shoichiro
  • Yamauchi Makiko
  • Nagayama Reona

Contact

Ginoza Village Cultural Center Garaman Hall

TEL:098-983-2613

MAIL:garaman@ginoza-bunka.jp