Savstrom Hakusui / サブストローム伯水

Official site of Savstrom Hakusui, as KINSHIN-RYU SATSUMA-BIWA performer based in Tokyo, Japan.

BIWA, a Japanese short necked lute, often used in narrative storytelling in genre of sermon, battle story, horror, and more. It has arrived Japan from China during NARA period (710–794) and became into 5 different styles such as GAKU-BIWA, MOSO-BIWA, HEIKE-BIWA, SATSUMA-BIWA, CHIKUZEN-BIWA. 
KINSHIN-RYU, one style of SATSUMA-BIWA, was found by NAGATA KINSHIN (1885-1927) in 1906. His sensitive melody and style expresses the melancholies of human that never changes all through the ages.