Lute player in Ginza

In a nice and warm Saturday afternoon in Ginza, it could happen you see strange people around. I mean, much more strange than usual ^_^
This time it's the turn of this guy, dressed up like a lute player of the late 16th century. He started to sing in a language that could have been any language of old Europe, the only word I was able to recognize was amore, so maybe he was singing in Italian, after all.

The lute is a plucked-string musical instrument. Its construction features a deeply rounded, ovoid body fabricated out of thin strips of wood glued together edgewise. The body is closed by a wooden soundboard or table to which the bridge is glued. The strings are tied around the bridge and stretched along a neck, which is fitted with a number of tied frets, to one or more pegboxes, where they are tuned by adjusting the tension. The strings are stopped or fretted with one hand while plucking with the other. The lute was popular and widely used in Europe from about the 12th century AD until well into the 18th century. After a period of disuse lasting more than a hundred years, interest in it slowly revived during the 20th century.