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The shamisen is the principle instrument of Kabuki theatre. It is a three-stringed, fretless instrument. The genres of music played by shamisen players is nagauta, or long song, and jojuri, named after a singing style in puppet plays. Jojuri is meant to accompany the narrator as he sings the story of the play. When a shamisen player in kabuki theater plays in both nagauta and jojuri styles, this mixture of genres is called kake ai performance.
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15 x 4 x 4 in. color slide 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. Epson Expression 1600 Photoshop 7.0 None 2800 RGB 24 Bit 4200 x 6186 74.3 Tiff
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