The pear-shaped biwa lute has enchanted listeners in Japan for centuries. Played with a large wooden plectrum, the instrument has four or five strings of twisted silk stretched over four or more deep ...

FUKUOKA--Raised in Rome, Doriano Sulis studied classic guitar before he married a Japanese woman and moved here 47 years ago. But Sulis, 73, has never felt homesick, thanks to a traditional Japanese ...

Coinciding with the release of the action-adventure video game, neoclassical composer Ilan Eshkeri opens up about his initial hesitation with the project, research into Japanese music and his love of ...

A young girl named Biwa is the heroine of “Heike Monogatari” (The Heike Story), a Japanese anime series. In the series, based on a medieval Japanese war epic called "The Tale of the Heike," Biwa ...

Masaaki Yuasa’s animated musical channels David Bowie to tell the tale of two outcasts in medieval Japan who find redemption in the liberating power of music. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief ...