

tcmcharlie
5 days ago6 min read
蓬莱山 Horaisan - singing for the first time
Singing Satsumabiwa became an adventure in the completest sense of the word.
The first song Fumon began to teach me was Horaisan.
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tcmcharlie
Jan 236 min read
The first lessons
He plays the first phrase on the instrument, I attempt to follow, gritting my teeth at the pain in my shoulder from holding the instrument
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tcmcharlie
Jan 146 min read
Translations
Among the topics that we spoke about were embodied knowledge, information that is preserved in lived experience
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tcmcharlie
Jan 78 min read
導き ー 日本への道
このブログに興味をもって、 ここまで足を運んでくださり、ありがとうございます。 このブログでは、薩摩琵琶のことをお話ししていきたいと思っています。 薩摩琵琶は、 薩摩藩(現在の鹿児島県と宮崎県の南の一部)で 侍たちが弾いていた弦楽器です。 リュートという弦楽器に似ています。...
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tcmcharlie
Aug 22, 20244 min read
A new Satsumabiwa from Fumon
The face board was made of mulberry wood. The grain of the wood caught my attention because it had black lines through it.
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tcmcharlie
Aug 5, 20244 min read
Amadera ya - Construction of Biwa - the big "Why"
the person traditionally associated with the creation of the Satsumabiwa in the mid-16th century was a Confucian scholar, Shimadzu Tadayoshi
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