USHIMADO -Japanese Countryside- with SHAKUHACHI & SHAMISEN

LOCATION : Ushimado town Setouchi city, Okayama
INSTRUMENTS : Shakuhachi （尺八）/ Tsugaru - Shamisen（津軽三味線）
SONG TITLE : Shinoyama Kobiki Uta （篠山木挽唄）-the Japanese folksong-
MUSICIAN : UMA EBINA (蝦名宇摩)
Website : umaebina.com/english
SHOT & EDIT : REIYA WATANABE （渡辺嶺也）

About Shakuhachi
Shakuhachi is a woodwind instrument made of bamboo. Though it has a simple structure with removing nodes and five holes, it can produce a range of 3 octaves. Also the sound of nature such as the wind and the chirping of birds have been taken into the expression since earliest times. Until modern times it was used as a ritual implement of Buddhism. And a Buddhist group regarded the blowing of shakuhachi as a part of the training to attain spiritual enlightenment as well as Zen meditation.

About Tsugaru Shamisen
The traditional instrument representing Japan, Tsugaru shamisen. It has supported Japanese traditional culture for a long time from musical side. And on the other side, it has also supported the performance of the strolling entertainers abandoned by the public. A player creates various tones by a fine fingering and makes percussive sounds by beating the body of the instrument with a plectrum. The three strings are full of Japanese musical sensibility.