Mr. Matsumoto, inventor and his newly made ***** samisen. The three stringed samisen which has served ***** threat and the Kabuki stage for three hundred ***** is no longer to be true to its name. Mr. Shozan *****, 50 years of age, a semisen expert of Osaka has ***** succeeded in making an instrument with five strings. Sumoto began the study of the samisen when he was 6 years and began to teach at the age of 14. For years he has an improved samisen in mind and his ideas have now been ***** cut successfully. The new samisen in four times as stage as the ordinary instrument, and is suitable for an *****, It is said that the tones are as melodious as ***** of the piano or harp. February 5, 1935.