[Tokyo Hirai] East Kyoto Visit the skills of certified and traditional craftsmen & experience making 箸 or coasters

In traditional techniques unchanged from the Edo era, we are engaged in the manufacture and repair of such shamisen and koto "Mukaiyama musical instrument store." So that you are familiar with Japanese instruments, so we carried out a tour and experience learning, please feel free to join us. In the experience, you will make your chopsticks or coaster.

In the tour, you will see the mainly stick the skin to the body of the shamisen of "skinning" process. Skinning is the most important work that affect the sound of the shamisen. The skill of the art of painstaking handwork produces, please see once carefully.

We will polish the lumber with a file and make a coaster or fence. You can feel the gloss increasing steadily by making the file eyes smaller and smaller. You can take it home and use it. Polish and shine, Tokyo Experience the technology unique to Shamisen.