| In addition, she was excellent at all arts, including shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese banjo), koto (a long Japanese zither with thirteen strings), kokyu (a Chinese fiddle), shakuhachi (a vertical bamboo flute), kouta (a short song accompanied with shamisen), sado (tea ceremony), waka (Japanese poetry), haikai (seventeen-syllable verse) and renga (linked verse). |
また三味線、琴、胡弓、尺八、小歌、茶道、和歌、俳諧、連歌、全てに秀でていた。 |