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The biwa (Japanese: 琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute traditionally used in narrative storytelling. The biwa is a plucked string instrument that first gained popularity in China before spreading throughout East Asia, eventually reaching Japan sometime during the Nara period (710–794).
Description English: Types of Biwa, Japanese short-necked fretted lute, often used in narrative storytelling. Left to right: Gagaku-biwa, Chikuzen-biwa, Heike-biwa, Mōsō-biwa, Satsuma-biwa
The Biwa-bokuboku was modeled after the biwa (琵琶), a short-necked, wooden lute. Toriyama Sekien reports in his work Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro (百器徒然袋) that the biwa was designed after Chinese instruments such as the bokuma and the genjō. [1] [2] [3] The Biwa-bokuboku belongs to a special group of yōkai: the Tsukumogami (Japanese ...
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The biwa is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute. Biwa may also refer to: Biwa, Shiga, a town in Shiga Prefecture, Japan; Biwa (restaurant), a former restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S. Biwa trout, an anadromous fish in the salmon family enzootic to Lake Biwa; Eric Biwa, a former Namibian politician; Lake Biwa, a lake in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Bivatuzumab (previously BIWA 4) is a humanized monoclonal antibody against CD44 v6. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is officially described as "immunoglobulin G1 (human-mouse monoclonal BIWA4 γ1-chain anti-human antigen CD44v6), disulfide with human-mouse monoclonal BIWA4 κ-chain, dimer". [ 3 ]
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Takeijima photographed from Lake Biwa Kisen. Takeshima (多景島) is an island in Shiga, Japan.It is uninhabited and part of Biwako Quasi National Park. [1] It is the smallest island of Lake Biwa [2] and is administered by the city of Hikone which is 6.5 km east of the island. [3]