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Silk thread manufacturing for strings utilized in shamisen and different conventional Japanese devices has reached its peak in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture.
In the Oto district of Nagahama, positioned in northern Lake Biwa, employees are extracting thread from cocoons softened in boiling water and winding it onto picket frames.
Thread produced within the space has been used for conventional devices such because the koto and shamisen because the Edo interval. Around 1955, about 70 households have been concerned within the work.
Production has since declined due to inhabitants getting older and the unfold of artificial fibers, leaving just one workshop nonetheless carrying on the craft.
Even so, the distinctive tone produced by uncooked silk stays strongly fashionable amongst musicians.
The work will proceed till round mid-July, and the wound thread can be shipped to an area conventional instrument manufacturing unit.
Source: YOMIURI