Traditional Japanese musical instruments

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Traditional Japanese musical instruments comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments.

Contents 1 String 1.1 Plucked 1.2 Bowed 2 Wind 2.1 Flutes 2.2 Oboes 2.3 Free reed mouth organs 2.4 Horns 3 Percussion 3.1 Drums 3.2 Other 4 Other 5 See also

[edit] String

[edit] Plucked

• Biwa (琵琶) - pear-shaped lute
• Ichigenkin (kanji: 一絃琴; hiragana: いちげんきん) - one-string zither
• Koto (琴, 箏) - long zither
• Kugo (箜篌) - an angled harp used in ancient times and recently revived
• Sanshin (三線) - three-string banjo from Okinawa
• Shamisen (三味線) - three-string banjo
• Yamatogoto (大和琴) - ancient long zither; also called wagon (和琴)
• Tonkori (トンコリ) - plucked instrument used by the Ainu of Hokkaidō

[edit] Bowed

• Kokyū (胡弓) - bowed lute with three (or, more rarely, four) strings and a skin-covered body

[edit] Wind

[edit] Flutes

• Hocchiku (法竹) - vertical bamboo flute
• Nohkan (能管) - transverse bamboo flute used for noh theater
• Ryūteki (龍笛) - transverse bamboo flute used for gagaku
• Kagurabue (神楽笛) - transverse bamboo flute used for mi-kagura (御神楽, Shinto ritual music)
• Komabue (高麗笛) - transverse bamboo flute kused for komagaku; similar to the ryūteki
• Shakuhachi (尺八) - vertical bamboo flute used for Zen meditation
• Shinobue (篠笛) - transverse folk bamboo flute
• Yokobue (横笛) - generic term for transverse bamboo flutes
• Tsuchibue (hiragana: つちぶえ; kanji: 土笛; literally "earthen flute") - globular flute made from clay

[edit] Oboes

• Hichiriki (篳篥) - cylindrical oboe used for gagaku

[edit] Free reed mouth organs

• Shō (笙) - 17-pipe mouth organ used for gagaku
• U (竽) - large mouth organ

[edit] Horns

• Horagai (法螺貝) - seashell horn; also called jinkai (陣貝)

[edit] Percussion

[edit] Drums

• Kakko (羯鼓) - small drum used in gagaku
• Taiko (太鼓), literally "great drum"
  • Ōtsuzumi (大鼓) - hand drum
  • Shime-daiko (締太鼓) - small drum played with sticks
  • Tsuzumi (鼓) - small hand drum
• Tsuri-daiko (釣太鼓) - drum on a stand with ornately painted head, played with a padded stick
• Ikko - small, ornately decorated hourglass-shaped drum
• San-no-tsuzumi (三の鼓), hourglass-shaped double-headed drum; struck only on one side
• Den-den daiko (でんでん太鼓) - pellet drum, used as a children's toy

[edit] Other

• Hyōshigi (拍子木) - wooden or bamboo clappers
• Mokugyo (木魚) - woodblock carved in the shape of a fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used in Buddhist chanting
• Shōko (鉦鼓) - small gong used in gagaku; struck with a horn beater
• Sasara (ささら) - clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord
  • Ita-sasara (板ささら) - clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord
  • Bin-sasara (板ささら; also spelled bin-zasara) - clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord
• Kokiriko (こきりこ) - clapper made from wooden slats
• Kagura suzu - hand-held bell tree with three tiers of pellet bells
• Kane (鉦) - small flat gong
• Shakubyoshi (also called shaku) - clapper made from a pair of flat wooden sticks

[edit] Other

• Mukkuri (ムックリ) - Jew's harp used by the Ainu people

[edit] See also

• Music of Japan
• Gagaku

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