A single instrument can bring together different woodworking connections. Tokyo’s shamisen account separates fitting the neck pieces from gluing the shaped pieces of the body.
Technique and structure
For the neck joint work, material cut into three pieces receives tenons and grooves made with a saw and chisel, then is gradually fitted together. The body operation instead joins four shaped pieces, after their ayasugi carving, with nikawa glue. The source emphasises accurate mating surfaces because that body connection uses glue without metal fittings. A fitted neck joint and a glued body seam are therefore different construction details, even within one shamisen.
Construction is not a listening test
The reference provides a making account. It does not establish the tone, condition or suitability of an individual instrument offered for sale.
For international readers
Ask the maker or repairer about the actual neck connections, body and materials. This is not an instruction to dismantle an instrument or a statement of export eligibility.
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日本語
東京三味線：棹の継手と胴の膠接着
東京三味線の継手づくりは、三つに切った材料に鋸とのみでほぞと溝を作り、徐々に合わせます。胴付けは、綾杉を彫った四枚の材料を、金物を使わず膠で接着する別の工程です。棹の継手と胴の接着面を区別し、個々の楽器の音色や修理方法、輸出可否を推測しません。