琴

Vocabulary (12)

• 口琴

  びやぼん

  Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

• 紙腔琴

  しこうきん

  Japanese variety of music box (invented in 1892 by Toda Kindo)

• 琵琶の琴

  びわのこと

  biwa (4 or 5-stringed Oriental lute)

• 琴柱

  ことじ

  bridge of a koto

• 水琴窟

  すいきんくつ

  buried earthen jar that makes sound when water drips into it (garden feature)

• 斧琴菊

  よきこときく

  dyeing pattern with a yoki, koto bridge and a chrysanthemum

• 伽倻琴

  かやきん

  gayageum (12-stringed Korean zither)

• 古琴

  こきん

  guqin (Chinese seven-string zither)

• 竪琴海豹

  たてごとあざらし

  harp seal (Phoca groenlandica)

• 百済琴

  くだらごと

  konghou (ancient Chinese harp)

• 箏の琴

  そうのこと

  koto

• 小琴

  おごと

  koto (usu. small)