In this way shamisen acquired a versatility of expression as an instrument to play a wide range of melodies: light and heavy, sad and merry; and jiuta, the first item of shamisen music, was born by Kengyo ISHIMURA and others at the very beginning of the Edo period.
こうして軽重哀楽を様々に幅広く表現することのできる楽器となり、江戸時代に入るとすぐ、石村検校らにより最初の三味線音楽種目である地歌が生まれる。