samisen

She closed her eyes and let herself drift with Samisen's keelsong.

"Samisen," Balthasar announced, and rose from his seat at the table.

One of the entertainers was playing the samisen.

As she ducked under the net, one of the apprentices began to play a samisen softly.

"Go ahead, Samisen, and thanks for your assistance."

Kiku clapped her hands gently and Ako brought the samisen.

"Thank you, Samisen, your help is much appreciated."

Above him he could hear the sound of laughter and the strings of a samisen as a clear woman's voice sang a ballad.

He reached for the controls, thumbed on the transmitter as the image of Samisen crossed the almost invisible border into the dead zone.

How can ladies talk or entertain or play the samisen or dance if they're stuffing their mouths?

A pulsing in his lower belly, a geisha's delicate fingers plucking the strings of a samisen.

Consider some of our Ladies: Kiku-san, for instance, has studied singing and dancing and the samisen since she was six.

"Bruja, this is the freighter Samisen, out of Misthia."

He retreated to the baffles separating Samisen's cradle from the next berth, and the two men conferred hastily.

She remembered being a young girl at the Dontaku Festival, the street full of people in bright-colored costumes playing samisen and beating drums.

(In western Japan, and often in Edo-period sources, it is sometimes "samisen.")

"Samisen, this is Bruja.

They will use synthesizers, violin, samisen and voice, accompanied by a microcomputer system trained to respond musically and improvisationally.

When he wasn't playing guitar, Mr. Kina was playing the samisen, a twangy, percussive, traditional stringed instrument.

Samisen's pilot made the adjustment deftly, and the Misthian ship settled slowly alongside Bruja, the two fields merging almost without interference.

Kafū Nagai praised "Samisen Canal."

Soothing background music is particularly spare, with a single flute and sounds that might come from a sitar or a samisen - or then again, maybe a synthesizer.

Atmosphere: Sushi bar, happi-coated chefs and waitresses, noren and private tatami room create a Japanese aura, augmented by samisen and koto music.

He also added another Japanese touch, a brief recital on the samisen, the stringed wooden instrument, when the time of the play switches to Japan's era of the samurai.

In the next room, which was the finest of all the rooms in the tea house, the only one with a garden of its own, Kiku picked up the long-handled samisen.