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[[Image:Kutu.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A ''[[koto]]'' tuned to Okinawan ''kutu'' tuning.]]

[[Image:Kutu.JPG|right|thumb|300px|A Japanese ''[[koto]]'' tuned to become an Okinawan ''kutu''.]]

*''Okinawan'': 琴 ''(kutu)''

*''Okinawan'': 琴 ''(kutu)''

The zither known as the ''[[koto]]'' in Japanese was the only major example of a Japanese instrument adopted into the repertoire of Okinawan classical music, where it is called ''kutu''.

The ''kutu'' is the Okinawan name for the 13-string zither called ''[[koto]]'' in Japanese. It is the only major example of a Japanese instrument being adopted into the repertoire of Okinawan classical music.

 

It may have been first introduced into Okinawa in [[1701]].<ref>Miyagi Eishô, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'', Tokyo: Daiichi shobô (1982), 129.</ref>

The ''kutu'' as it is used in Okinawan music is physically identical to the Japanese ''koto'', but is simply tuned differently. It is most commonly played as accompaniment to the [[sanshin]], sometimes, traditionally, alongside the ''kûchô'' (the Okinawan version of the ''[[kokyu (instrument)|kokyû]]'' fiddle). However, there is also a small repertoire of solo Okinawan ''kutu'' songs, mainly ''danmono'' pieces in the style of the [[Yatsuhashi school]] of Japanese ''koto'', along with several other Japanese ''koto'' pieces of unclear origin. One of the most common pieces in this solo repertoire, also commonly played on classical ''sanshin'', is a ''danmono'' piece entitled ''Watarizô-Tachiutushi''.

The ''kutu'' as it is used in Okinawan music is physically identical to the Japanese ''koto'', but is simply tuned differently. It is most commonly played as accompaniment to the [[sanshin]], sometimes, traditionally, alongside the ''kûchô'' (the Okinawan version of the ''[[kokyu (instrument)|kokyû]]'' fiddle). However, there is also a small repertoire of solo Okinawan ''kutu'' songs, mainly ''danmono'' pieces in the style of the [[Yatsuhashi school]] of Japanese ''koto'', along with several other Japanese ''koto'' pieces of unclear origin. One of the most common pieces in this solo repertoire, also commonly played on classical ''sanshin'', is a ''danmono'' piece entitled ''Watarizô-Tachiutushi''.

==References==

==References==

*[[Robin Thompson|Thompson, Robin]]. "The Music of Ryukyu." ''Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p309.

*[[Robin Thompson|Thompson, Robin]]. "The Music of Ryukyu." ''Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music''. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2008. p309.

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