 | Shamisen  The Yoshida Brothers |
Ryōichirō Yoshida (Yoshida Ryōichirō?, born 26 July 1977)  and Kenichi Yoshida (Yoshida Ken'ichi?, born 16 December 1979) were born in Noboribetsu in Hokkaido, Japan. | They have played the shamisen from a very young age. They began to study the shamisen from 5 years of age under Koka Adachi, learning the Minyō-shamisen style; from about 1989 they studied the Tsugaru-jamisen style under Takashi Sasaki. |
 | The Shamisen is sort of a banjo type instrument that is common in traditional Asian music (particularly in Japan)  The shamisen or samisen (literally "three strings"), also called sangen (literally "three strings"), is a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. |
| The brothers are performers of the traditional Japanese music style of Tsugaru-jamisen which originated in northern Japan. They debuted in 1999 in Japan as a duo playing the shamisen. Their first album sold over 100,000 copies and made them minor celebrities in Japan, a fact that surprised the Yoshida Brothers themselves. an avid international audience. |
Their music has been a fusion of the rapid and percussive Tsugaru-jamisen style along with Western and other regional musical influences.  In addition to performing songs on the shamisen, they also use instruments such as drums and synthesizers. |
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