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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]
The ichigenkin (Japanese: 一絃琴, literally "one-string zither", also sumagoto / 須磨琴) is a Japanese single-stringed plucked zither. Its body is a slender, slightly curved plank carved from kiri (Paulownia tomentosa) wood.
19th century yamato-goto (shown here without bridges); collection of the Tokyo National MuseumThe yamatogoto (大和琴 / やまとごと), also called wagon (和琴 / わごん) and azumagoto (東琴 / あずまごと), is a six- or seven-stringed plucked bridge zither which, unlike the koto and other stringed instruments, is believed to be truly native to Japan, and not imported from ...
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.
Suikinkutsu (Japanese water zither) struck idiophone: hydraulophone: Japan; water drips into a resonant container producing sound. Sound produced through action of water, acting as striker or clapper. randomly pitched percussion: Wobble board (Australia) plucked idiophone: gaiaphone: Australia. Not precisely plucked.
The Japanese Koto is also a half-tube zither. [34] The ancestor of the koto was the Chinese guzheng . [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 34 ] It was first introduced to Japan from China in the 7th and 8th century. [ 38 ]
Biwa (Japanese) Bordonua (Puerto Rico) Bouzouki (Greece) Trichorda; ... Zither. Alpine zither (Central Europe) Concert zither (United States) Guitar zither; Struck or ...
The zither family (including the Qanún/kanun, autoharp, kantele, gusli, kannel, kankles, kokles, koto, guqin, gu zheng and many others) does not have a neck, and the strings are stretched across the soundboard.