The "Sanshin" (Sanxian,三線) 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!