Experience live Japanese Shamisen music with Kiki from Tsugaru Shamisen Girls and explore the art of playing the Shamisen.

If a building represented Tatsu Aoki’s life, it would look like the Asian Improv Arts Midwest dojo, on Elston Avenue. After years of renting space from the Japanese American Service Committee, ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Tatsu Aoki, shamisen, with curator Kit Brooks Follow one of Japan’s signature musical instruments, a three-stringed lute called the shamisen, ...