samisen

• One of the geishas came in front of me, and taking up a samisen, asked me to sing something. —  Botchan (Master Darling)
• In this the performer was generally a woman, and the instrument on which she accompanied herself was the samisen. —  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
• A woman carrying a samisen, and accompanied by a little boy seven or eight years old, came to my house to sing. —  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
• Once she had been fairly well to do, and had learned the samisen when a girl. —  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints
• 'Merican _samisen_ you sing much songs. —  Little Sister Snow

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