1) Banjolike japanese instrument 2) Geisha guitar 3) Ginza banjo 4) Guitar cousin 5) Japanese banjo 6) Japanese guitar 7) Japanese musical instrument 8) Japanese stringed instrument 9) Japanese three-stringed banjo 10) Played with a plectrum 11) Plucked Japanese instrument 12) Shamisen 13) Stringed instrument 1) Shamisen 
• (n.) A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.
long-necked, fretless Japanese lute. The instrument has a small, square body with a catskin front and back, three twisted-silk strings, and a ... [4 related articles]
Sam'i·sen noun [ Jap.] (Mus.) A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo. 
The samisen is a Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.
Three-stringed lute introduced from China and popular from the late-16th Century on. Best-known as a woman
[n] - Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox
shamisen noun a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum