{"id":14427,"date":"2025-12-07T18:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:35:55","slug":"victoria-raiken-shamisen-at-greenwich-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/12\/07\/victoria-raiken-shamisen-at-greenwich-house","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Raiken: Shamisen at Greenwich House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f815857e7f0652008f73179b2be12c6f-590x757.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f815857e7f0652008f73179b2be12c6f-590x757.png 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f815857e7f0652008f73179b2be12c6f-193x248.png 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f815857e7f0652008f73179b2be12c6f-768x985.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f815857e7f0652008f73179b2be12c6f-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/f815857e7f0652008f73179b2be12c6f.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For my CIP, I took lessons at Greenwich House to learn the shamisen. I was joined by two other students from KCJS where we learned how to play a variety of traditional music pieces and ended the semester with a concert that involved the whole music school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before coming to Japan, not only did I have very limited experience with stringed instruments but I had also never seen a shamisen in real life before. Learning the shamisen in such a short time to perform at the concert was a big challenge for me but I\u2019m so grateful I was given the opportunity to be a part of this community and learn about such a valued piece of Japanese culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My advice to incoming students would be to apply an interest you already have and use that passion to create connections within the community. Despite my skill-based challenges, I had a genuine interest in music and because of that I was able to bond with both the other KCJS students as well as the wonderful people at Greenwich House.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my CIP, I took lessons at Greenwich House to learn the shamisen. I was joined by two other students from K &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2025\/12\/07\/victoria-raiken-shamisen-at-greenwich-house\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":738,"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=14427"},"categories":[41,184,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427"}],"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\/738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14431,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions\/14431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}