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StringPlucked
  • Biwa - pear-shaped lute
  • Ichigenkin - one-string Zither
  • Koto - long zither
  • Junanagen - 17-stringed zither
  • Taishogoto - zither with metal strings and keys
  • Kugo - an angled harp used in ancient times and recently revived
  • Sanshin - three-string banjo from Okinawa
  • Shamisen - three-string banjo
  • Yamatogoto - ancient long zither; also called wagon(和琴)
  • Tonkori - plucked instrument used by the Ainu of Hokkaidō

Bowed

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

Wind

Flutes

Japanese flutes are called Fue.

  • Hocchiku - vertical bamboo Flute
  • Nohkan - transverse bamboo flute used for noh theater
  • RyÅ«teki - transverse bamboo flute used for gagaku
  • Kagurabue - transverse bamboo flute used for mi-kagura(御神楽, Shinto ritual music)
  • Komabue - transverse bamboo flute kused for komagaku; similar to the ryÅ«teki
  • Shakuhachi - vertical bamboo flute used for Zen meditation
  • Shinobue - transverse folk bamboo flute
  • Yokobue - generic term for transverse bamboo flutes
  • Tsuchibue (hiragana: ; kanji: ; literally "earthen flute") - globular flute made from clay
Reeded Instruments
  • Hichiriki - double-reeded instrument used in gagaku
Free reed mouth organs
  • Shō - 17-pipe mouth organ used for gagaku
  • U - large mouth organ
Horns
  • Horagai - seashell horn; also called jinkai
PercussionDrums
  • Kakko - small drum used in gagaku
  • Taiko , literally "great drum"
    • ÅŒtsuzumi - hand drum
    • Shime-daiko - small drum played with sticks
    • Tsuzumi - small hand drum
  • Tsuri-daiko - drum on a stand with ornately painted head, played with a padded stick
  • Ikko - small, ornately decorated hourglass-shaped drum
  • San-no-tsuzumi , hourglass-shaped double-headed drum; struck only on one side
  • Den-den daiko - pellet drum, used as a children's toy
Other
  • 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 (鉦鼓) - small gong used in gagaku; struck with two horn beaters
  • Sasara (ささら) - clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord
    • Ita-sasara (板ささら) - clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord
    • Bin-sasara (編木, 板ささら; also spelled bin-zasara) - clapper made from wooden slats connected by a rope or cord
  • Kokiriko (筑子, こきりこ) - many people confuse the kokiriko with the sasara and sasara are often sold in the West under the name kokiriko. In fact, the kokiriko is a pair of sticks which are beaten together slowly and rhythmically.
  • Kagura suzu - hand-held bell tree with three tiers of pellet bells
  • Kane - small flat gong
  • Shakubyoshi (also called shaku) - clapper made from a pair of flat wooden sticks
Other
  • Mukkuri - Jew's harp used by the Ainu people
  • Koukin - general name for the Jew's harp, in Edo period also called Biyabon
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