Japanese instruments Japanese instruments A biwa (琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, and a close variant of the Chinese pipa. The biwa is the chosen instrument of Benten, the White Snake Goddess of Japan's Shinto religion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biwa"
The hichiriki ( Japanese: 篳篥) is a double reed instrument used as a main melodic instrument in Japanese gagaku music. The instrument is difficult to play, due in part to its double-reed configuration. The sound is very similar to the clarinet or oboe and is controlled mostly with the embouchure. The hichiriki is one of the "sacred" instruments and is often heard being played at Shinto weddings in Japan. It produces a sound that many describe as "haunting." ...more on Wikipedia about "Hichiriki"
Hocchiku (also, hochiku or hotchiku) is a Japanese end-blown flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo. After cleaning and sanding, the heavy root end of the bamboo stalk reveals many small circular knots where the roots formerly joined the stalk. The same part of the bamboo plant is also used to produce the shakuhachi but, unlike the shakuhachi, the hocchiku's inside (bore) and outside surfaces are left unlaquered and its mouthpiece is not inlaid. The membranes at the nodes inside a hocchiku bore are generally left more intact than those of a shakuhachi. Together, these characteristics make for a visibly and audibly raw and organic instrument. Hocchiku are sometimes referred to as jinashi nobekan, meaning "without ji (a paste made of clay and lacquer, used to smooth the bore on shakuhachi), one-piece" (hocchiku are not cut in two pieces for crafting or storage, unlike shakuhachi). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hocchiku"
(Horagai) The conch shell, blown as a trumpet, served a number of purposes in Japanese history. It is called , , or a number of other names in Japanese depending on its function. ...more on Wikipedia about "Horagai"
(Kokyu) The kokyū (胡弓) is a traditional Japanese string instrument, the only one played with a bow. Although it was supposedly introduced to Japan from China along with the shamisen, its material, shape and sound are unique to Japan. The instrument also exists in an Okinawan version, called kucho in the Okinawan language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kokyu"
The koto ( Japanese: 箏 Sino-Japanese reading " sō"; more commonly, thought not quite correctly, the character 琴, Sino-Japanese reading "kin" is used) is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. ...more on Wikipedia about "Koto (musical instrument)"
(Ryuteki) The Ryūteki (龍笛) is a type of Japanese flute made of bamboo. It is used in gagaku, a type of classical court music. Its name means "dragon flute." The sound of the ryūteki is said to represent the dragons which ascend the skies between the heavenly lights (represented by the shō) and the people of the earth (represented by the hichiriki). The ryūteki is one of the three flutes used in gagaku, in particular to play songs of Chinese style. The pitch is lower than that of the komabue and higher than that of the kagurabue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ryuteki"
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The shakuhachi (尺八 in Japanese, pronounced /shakoo-hatchee/) is a Japanese end-blown flute which is held vertically like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the familiar Western transverse flute. It was used by the monks of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism in the practice of Suizen (blowing meditation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Shakuhachi"
A shamisen or samisen ( Japanese: 三味線, literally "three taste strings"), also called sangen (literally "three strings") is a three-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum. The pronunciation in Japanese is usually "shamisen" (in western Japan, and often in Edo-period sources "samisen") but sometimes "jamisen" when used as a suffix (e.g. Tsugaru-jamisen). ...more on Wikipedia about "Shamisen"
(Sho) Shō (笙) is a Japanese musical instrument made out of bamboo that was introduced from China during the Nara period. It consists of 17 pipes, two of which are silent. The instrument also is one of the three primary woodwind instruments used in gagaku, Japan's imperial court music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sho"
The word taiko (太鼓) means simply "great drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums (和太鼓, 'wa-daiko', "Japanese drum", in Japanese) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming (sometimes called more specifically, "kumi-daiko" (組太鼓). ...more on Wikipedia about "Taiko"
(Yamatogoto) The , also called , is a six-stringed zither which, unlike the koto and other stringed instruments, is believed to be truly native to Japan, and not imported from mainland Asia. Both names translate literally to "Japanese stringed instrument." ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamatogoto"
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