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Created page with "*''Other Names'': 大和琴 ''(yamato koto)'' *''Japanese'': 和琴 ''(wagon)'' The ''wagon'' or ''yamato-koto'' (lit. "Japanese ''koto''") is a zither typically used in ..."
*''Other Names'': 大和琴 ''(yamato koto)''
*''Japanese'': 和琴 ''(wagon)''
The ''wagon'' or ''yamato-koto'' (lit. "Japanese ''[[koto]]''") is a zither typically used in ''[[kagura]]'' performances. It is perhaps the only indigenous Japanese string instrument, and in comparison to the standard ''koto'' (which is related to the Chinese ''[[qin]]''), has a number of distinctive features, including forked bridges made from maple twigs, and projecting teeth to which the strings are tied.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 89.4.1555.
[[Category:Poetry and Theater]]
*''Japanese'': 和琴 ''(wagon)''
The ''wagon'' or ''yamato-koto'' (lit. "Japanese ''[[koto]]''") is a zither typically used in ''[[kagura]]'' performances. It is perhaps the only indigenous Japanese string instrument, and in comparison to the standard ''koto'' (which is related to the Chinese ''[[qin]]''), has a number of distinctive features, including forked bridges made from maple twigs, and projecting teeth to which the strings are tied.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 89.4.1555.
[[Category:Poetry and Theater]]