Musical Instruments from Japan

Hello guys :) we meet again ;)
I was introducing Musical Instruments from Great Britain and Ireland
Today we will move to Asia and take a lot on Asians' musical intrsuments

Percussion

Hyōshigi (拍子木) — wooden or bamboo clappers

 Mokugyo (木魚) — woodblock carved in the shape of a fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used in Buddhist chanting Shōko

Bin-sasara (編木, 板ささら; also spelled bin-zasara) — clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord

 

Kane (鉦) — small flat gong

Taiko (太鼓), literally "great drum" 

Strings

Biwa

Koto (琴, 箏) — long zither

 Kugo (箜篌) — an angled harp used in ancient times and recently revived

 Sanshin (三線) — three-string banjo from Okinawa

Tonkori (トンコリ) — plucked instrument used by the Ainu of Hokkaidō

Bowed

 

Kokyū - bowed lute with three (or, more rarely, four) strings and a skin-covered body

Wind

Flutes

Japanese flutes are called Fue. there are eight different flutes

Root end

Finger hole

Hocchiku (法竹) — vertical bamboo flute

Kagurabue (神楽笛) — transverse bamboo flute used for mi-kagura (御神楽, Shinto ritual music)

 Komabue (高麗笛) — transverse bamboo flute used for komagaku; similar to the ryūteki

Shakuhachi (尺八) — vertical bamboo flute used for Zen meditation

 Shinobue (篠笛) — transverse folk bamboo flute

Tsuchibue (hiragana: つちぶえ; kanji: 土笛; literally "earthen flute") — globular flute made from clay

Horns

Horagai (法螺貝) — seashell horn; also called jinkai (陣貝)

Here's for today ;) see you ;)