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Definition of Samisen
1. Noun. A Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum.
Definition of Samisen
1. n. A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.
Definition of Samisen
1. Noun. A kind of three-stringed Japanese lute ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Samisen
1. a Japanese stringed instrument [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Samisen
Literary usage of Samisen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1880)
"The orchestra furnishes music by means of the guitar, or ' samisen.' It is played
something like our guitar, except that a piece of ivory is used for ..."
2. The Provincetown Plays by George Cram Cook, Frank Shay (1921)
"THE STRING OF THE samisen A PLAY BY RITA WELLMAN Copyright, 1917, By RITA WELLMAN
All Rights Reserved Applications for the right of performing "The String ..."
3. The Provincetown Plays by George Cram Cook, Frank Shay (1921)
"Applications for the right of performing "The String of the samisen" must be made
to Miss Rita Wellman, 142 East Eighteenth St., New York. ..."
4. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"LIU-KIU samisen. Almost the only souvenirs that we brought away with us were the
peculiar silver hair-pins to which I have already alluded, ..."
5. The Garter Mission to Japan (1906)
"... and a troop of geishas with their attendant band of samisen and koto-players,
not to speak of a very active drummer—of course, a lady,—were waiting to ..."
6. Three Rolling Stones in Japan by Gilbert Watson (1904)
"... the strains of samisen music. In every one of these houses there were young
girls ; before every one the restless crowd elbowed its way. ..."
7. In Beautiful Japan: A Story of Bamboo Lands by Katharine Schuyler Baxter (1904)
"... married women were required to shave their eyebrows and blacken their teeth,
as a wife is supposed to have attractions for her samisen. husband only. ..."
8. Japanese Women by Japanese Woman's Commission, Japan, Chicago, 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"If the koto is accompanied by the samisen and kokiu it is often called "the ...
The form of the samisen and the manner of playing it is somewhat like the ..."
9. The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1880)
"The orchestra furnishes music by means of the guitar, or ' samisen.' It is played
something like our guitar, except that a piece of ivory is used for ..."
10. The Provincetown Plays by George Cram Cook, Frank Shay (1921)
"THE STRING OF THE samisen A PLAY BY RITA WELLMAN Copyright, 1917, By RITA WELLMAN
All Rights Reserved Applications for the right of performing "The String ..."
11. The Provincetown Plays by George Cram Cook, Frank Shay (1921)
"Applications for the right of performing "The String of the samisen" must be made
to Miss Rita Wellman, 142 East Eighteenth St., New York. ..."
12. The Cruise of the Marchesa to Kamschatka & New Guinea: with notices of by Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1889)
"LIU-KIU samisen. Almost the only souvenirs that we brought away with us were the
peculiar silver hair-pins to which I have already alluded, ..."
13. The Garter Mission to Japan (1906)
"... and a troop of geishas with their attendant band of samisen and koto-players,
not to speak of a very active drummer—of course, a lady,—were waiting to ..."
14. Three Rolling Stones in Japan by Gilbert Watson (1904)
"... the strains of samisen music. In every one of these houses there were young
girls ; before every one the restless crowd elbowed its way. ..."
15. In Beautiful Japan: A Story of Bamboo Lands by Katharine Schuyler Baxter (1904)
"... married women were required to shave their eyebrows and blacken their teeth,
as a wife is supposed to have attractions for her samisen. husband only. ..."
16. Japanese Women by Japanese Woman's Commission, Japan, Chicago, 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
"If the koto is accompanied by the samisen and kokiu it is often called "the ...
The form of the samisen and the manner of playing it is somewhat like the ..."
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