At the end of the Edo period, Jinbee IKEDA brought together the beauty of both schools and established his own school and this has came down to the present time as the Satsuma biwa.
江戸時代末期に池田甚兵衛が両派の美点を一つに合わせ、一流を成し、以降、これが薩摩琵琶として現在まで続いている。