 Although the older songs and their shamisen accompaniments or shamisen solo versions have no doubt themselves been somewhat transformed from what they were many decades ago (and they of course were never an entirely uniform to begin with), it remains certain that the “old,” “middle,” and “new” versions are differentiated not merely stylistically but also historically.Their structural differences contain, as it were, a congealed history.Daijō Kazuo
Daijō has spent most of his life studying The Tsugaru-Shamisen and has met many of the old bosama.