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*''Other Names'': 横笛 ''(J: yokofue, ôteki)'', てう ''(teu, chô)''
*''Other Names'': 横笛 ''(J: yokofue, ôteki)'', てう ''(J: teu, chô)'', 半笙 ''(J: hanshô, O: fansô)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 清笛 ''(Qīng dí / shinteki)''
*''Chinese/Japanese'': 清笛 ''(Qīng dí / shinteki)''
Surviving examples of 18th century Ryukyuan instruments in [[Tokugawa Art Museum|Tokugawa]] collections include flutes of varying lengths, each of them made of a length of bamboo, with black [[lacquer]]ed buffalo horn fittings at either end. Each has nine finger holes on the top of the instrument (plus the mouthpiece), and two on the bottom, plus another two where a tassel could be strung for purely decorative purposes. Each is bound in twenty-four places with string coated in lacquer and [[gold leaf]].
Surviving examples of 18th century Ryukyuan instruments in [[Tokugawa Art Museum|Tokugawa]] collections include flutes of varying lengths, each of them made of a length of bamboo, with black [[lacquer]]ed buffalo horn fittings at either end. Each has nine finger holes on the top of the instrument (plus the mouthpiece), and two on the bottom, plus another two where a tassel could be strung for purely decorative purposes. Each is bound in twenty-four places with string coated in lacquer and [[gold leaf]].
The instrument is sometimes referred to in early modern Japanese or Ryukyuan documents as ''hanshô'',<ref>Liao Zhenpei 廖真珮, "Ryûkyû kyûtei ni okeru Chûgoku kei ongaku no ensô to denshô" 琉球宮廷における中国系音楽の演奏と伝承, in ''Uzagaku no fukugen ni mukete'' 御座楽の復元に向けて, Naha, Okinawa: Uzagaku fukugen ensô kenkyûkai 御座楽復元演奏研究会 (2007),93-94.</ref> and is closely related to the Ryukyuan ''[[fanso|fansô]]''.
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