{"id":14331,"date":"2025-04-22T00:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14331"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:25:06","slug":"shawn-chen-koto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/22\/shawn-chen-koto","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Chen: Koto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-590x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-590x443.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-193x145.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1742477069162-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For my CIP, I took Koto lessons with Iwasaki sensei! Koto, shamisen, and shakuhachi are also taught at the studio and there was a chance for me and 4 others to perform together in traditional attire!<\/p>\n<p>While learning the instrument was fun in itself, the community in the studio is definitely the key highlight of the experience. They&#8217;re all so welcoming and often help out with teaching.<\/p>\n<p>If you take lessons here (which I highly recommend), I would advise you to never be afraid to ask questions if you have any and to talk about your experiences in Japan as you go. They&#8217;re also curious about us and want to hear more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my CIP, I took Koto lessons with Iwasaki sensei! Koto, shamisen, and shakuhachi are also taught at the stu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/04\/22\/shawn-chen-koto\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14331"},"categories":[47,183,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14367,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14331\/revisions\/14367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}