About this site 

With this project, I would like to tell people in blog form about the Satsumabiwa. This instrument was originally performed by the samurai of the Satsuma Domain, present-day Kagoshima and Southern Miyazaki. Since the end of the nineteenth century, it began to be played throughout Japan and now is being played beyond Japan throughout the world. I am from Ireland. I studied with Yoshinori Fumon (photo) from December 1994 for a number of years in Japan. Here I will narrate how the instrument is played, its music, its history, what players find beautiful about this unique and amazing instrument.

 

If anybody wishes to use elements of this blog, please drop me a line at ranjo@satsumabiwa.eu

 

I thank everyone who has supported me and I express my deepest gratitude to my teacher who shared his knowledge and experience so generously with me and asked that I tell the world of the beauty of this narrative art form.