Crossword-Solution: SAMISEN 7 letters, 41 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There is one covered boat for excursions on the lake, and a few _geishas_ were playing the _samisen_; but, as gaming is illegal, and there is no place of public resort except the bathing-sheds, people must spend nearly all their time in bathing, sleeping, smoking, and eating.

Yuki plays the _samisen_, which may be regarded as the national female instrument, and Haru goes to a teacher daily for lessons on the same.

Japanese chess, story-telling, and the _samisen_ fill up the early part of the evening, but later, an agonising performance, which they call singing, begins, which sounds like the very essence of heathenishness, and consists mainly in a prolonged vibrating “No.” As soon as I hear it I feel as if I were among savages.

England still has military initiative, though it’s hard to see how she’s going to keep that unless she does something to stop the degeneration of the class she draws her army from; but what other kind do we hear about? Company-promoting, bee-keeping, asparagus-growing, poultry-farming for ladies, the opening of a new Oriental Tea-Pot in Regent Street, with samisen-players between four and six, and Japanese attendants who take the change on their hands and knees.

One night when moon was big and round and red and river outside wall go spank, spank, you call all my people to garden, and with the 'Merican _samisen_ you sing much songs.