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The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se , and similar to the Mongolian yatga , the Korean gayageum and ajaeng , the Vietnamese đàn tranh , the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen . [ 1 ]
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The 80-string koto, known as the hachijugen (八十絃/はちじゅうげん) in Japanese, was an invention of Japanese composer Michio Miyagi created in 1923. Miyagi added 67 strings to the traditional 13-string koto design, creating an instrument much like a western harp. Together, the 80 strings provide a far larger pitch range than the ...
The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan. Hotei. ISBN 90-74822-63-0. Japan: Kubota, Hideki (1986). Yakumogoto no shirabe: Shinwa to sono kokoro (八雲琴の調べ : 神話とその心 / 窪田英樹) (in Japanese). Ōsaka-shi: Tōhō Shuppan. ISBN 4-88591-144-3. Japan: Wade, Bonnie C. (1976). Tegotomono: Music for the Japanese ...
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Traditional Japanese musical instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They comprise a range of string , wind , and percussion instruments.