Native Name | Yokumo-Koto |
Object Number | A681 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Japanese |
Provenience | Japan |
Section | Asian |
Materials | Wood | Brass | Cloth |
Description | Yokumo-koto (Nigenkin 二弦 琴) used in Shinto temple after Yokumo poem. Dark brown wood, about one meter long eleven centimeters wide with two strings missing. Bridges, brass passage for strings in missing. Disc cloth one end, black cut out wood applied over cloth at other end with two bone, cylinder and spheres. Three bone eyelets, crescent and circular cutout on back. Three horizontal grooves. |
Height | 109.5 cm |
Width | 11.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Sarah (William D.) Frishmuth, 1900 |
Other Number | C-92 - Seder Number | 5312 - Other Number |
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