{"id":14703,"date":"2026-04-18T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14703"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:50:52","slug":"joseph-wu-shamisen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/joseph-wu-shamisen","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Wu, Shamisen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-14705\" style=\"color: #333333;font: 300 15px \/ 1.625 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/108c3316bf5f3953765e6d0ade99d7bd-1-590x443.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/108c3316bf5f3953765e6d0ade99d7bd-1-590x443.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/108c3316bf5f3953765e6d0ade99d7bd-1-193x145.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/108c3316bf5f3953765e6d0ade99d7bd-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/108c3316bf5f3953765e6d0ade99d7bd-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/108c3316bf5f3953765e6d0ade99d7bd-1.jpg 1477w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 544px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-14703-1\" width=\"544\" height=\"736\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/33a0133402dbc26c60f17e87d133ed55.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/33a0133402dbc26c60f17e87d133ed55.mp4\">https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/33a0133402dbc26c60f17e87d133ed55.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>In the shamisen class, you\u2019ll learn to play this instrument from scratch and eventually be able to perform four complete pieces at the very end. You will perform a final ensembled performance in the last session with other students learning koto or shakuhachi. The overall experience is very immersive and memorable. The whole process of learning isn&#8217;t just about learning how to play the instrument but about communicating with your teacher and absorb knowledges and experience the Japanese traditional style of mentor-apprentice relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In the shamisen class, you\u2019ll learn to play this instrument from scratch and eventually be able to perf &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/18\/joseph-wu-shamisen\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":777,"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=14703"},"categories":[71,184,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703"}],"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\/777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14707,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14703\/revisions\/14707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}