Kine-ie Shamisen Institute

Mary Ohno has established Kine-ie U.S.A. Branch of Naga-uta shamisen school in 1986. All her students make amazing progress and have a recital time to time. Her Kine-ie U.S.A. branch had performed at the National Theater, in Tokyo on "VI Yashichi Kine-ie Centenial Memorial Concert" of Kine-ie Shamisen Institute, in 1990

The shamisen music texts, Mary Ohno uses for her students now are called Bunka-Fu,founded by IV Yashichi Kine-ie (grandmother of present Grandmaster VI Yashichi Kine-ie) in 1922. Because of this shamisen texts are easy to follow, all of her American students are able to read and play without any difficulty. Within a 10-week-lesson. anyone can learn and play several Naga-uta numbers under Mary Ohno's Kabuki Academy class.

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