{"id":22693,"date":"2020-09-13T14:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T05:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/13\/japans-young-musicians-rally-to-save-dying-art-of-shamisen-music"},"modified":"2020-09-13T14:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T05:55:19","slug":"japans-young-musicians-rally-to-save-dying-art-of-shamisen-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22693","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s young musicians rally to save dying art of shamisen music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of this ancient instrument were near to closure. But could it get a new lease of life? <\/p>\n<p>Katsuhiro Otaki confesses he can\u2019t play a note on the <em>shamisen<\/em>, a three-stringed instrument whose sound has been the backdrop to Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2010\/jun\/06\/kabuki-review\" title=\"\">traditional theatre<\/a> for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>But tens of thousands of men and women who do know their way up and down a shamisen neck have Otaki to thank for their exquisite instruments, hand-crafted by three generations of his family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/13\/japans-young-musicians-rally-to-save-dying-art-of-shamisen-music\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The makers of this ancient instrument were near to closure. But could it get a new lease of life? Katsuhiro Otaki confesses he can\u2019t play a note on the shamisen, a three-stringed instrument whose sound has been the backdrop to Japanese traditional thea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,88,425,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-japan","category-music","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22694,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22693\/revisions\/22694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}