Donald Keene’s Son Puts Basho to Music at Performance in Tokyo; Marking Date His Father Became a Japanese Citizen

A shamisen performance by Seiki Keene, the adopted son of Japanologist Donald Keene, was held in Tokyo on Saturday. Seiki, 74, played the shamisen professionally for joruri puppet plays for a quarter century. At the event, he performed his own composition for Matsuo Basho’s “Oku no Hosomichi” (The n...