Shamisen'ya No Yuuji, or Yuuji of the Shamisen Shop, is my favourite character in a very old Japanese TV series, 'Hissatsu Shigotonin'. By day he repairs and makes shamisen in the shop that he and his mother own; by night he's an assassin who despatches his victims with shamisen strings via hanging or strangulation.
#9: Shamisen'ya No Yuuji
There
is artistry in the plucking
Of
a shamisen string
And
the taking of a life.
It
is all in the skill, the fingers.
Amazing
that so thin a line of silk
Can
sing so mournful a tune
And also hang a man.
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