Sanshin Download

The Sanshin (Sanxian,) is a traditional and very popular musical instrument in Okinawa.

Okinawa is beautiful islands located on the end of the southwest of Japan.

The Sanshin is indispensable to life of people in Okinawa with traditional Shima-Uta that means song of islands.

The Sanshin looks like the shamisen that is the tradition musical instrument of Japan similarly. But, the performance method of the Sanshin is farther simpler than the Shamisen,and is friendly musical instrument.

In this application, proper finger positions will be displayed on the screen with Kanji.

These also correspond to scores that is called Kun-Kun-Shi written in Kanji.

We hope you will enjoy playing the Sanshin

even if you have not played a Sanshin.

Please try and enjoy it!,