Illustration: In a neighborhood music lesson room with tatami flooring, a seated teacher demonstrates a shamisen to a young adult learner. The instrument’s compact, skin-covered body rests against the teacher’s thigh, its long fretless neck rising diagonally and its three strings clearly separated.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

三味線しゃみせん

shamisen

shamisen

Also read さみせん. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょは三味線しゃみせんによる新あたらしいジャズの演奏法えんそうほうを始はじめた。

    She originated a new way of playing jazz on the shamisen.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 三味線しゃみせん同士どうしの合奏がっそうも盛さかんになった。

    Ensembles of shamisen also became popular.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 三味線しゃみせんは楽器分類学上がっきぶんるいがくじょう「リュート属ぞく」に属ぞくする。

    According to the taxonomic classification of musical instruments, shamisen belongs to 'lute family.'

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 三味線

  • 三threeOnサン・ゾウKunみ・みつ・みっつ
  • 味flavor; tasteOnミKunあじ・あじわう
  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ

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