{"id":657,"date":"2010-08-07T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-08-10T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T06:57:32","slug":"japanese-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way before guitars and violins were introduced to Japan, Japanese music was dominated by traditional Japanese stringed instruments such as these:<\/p>\n<p>A Koto (<strong>\u7b8f<\/strong>) is a 13 stringed instrument made of wood. The koto has 13 bridges, which can be moved around to change the sound.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=75uAD-XYs6U\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=75uAD-XYs6U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Shamisen (<strong>\u4e09\u5473\u7dda<\/strong>) is a three stringed instrument played with a bachi (<strong>\u64a5<\/strong>). A bachi is a tool used to play the shamisen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DDZgPf4JEGQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DDZgPf4JEGQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Biwa (<strong>\u7435\u7436<\/strong>) is a pear shaped guitar with four or five strings and four or five frets, depending on the biwa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gagaku biwa gakubiwa \u96c5\u697d\u7435\u7436 \u697d\u7435\u7436\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZsrS2w6sq-4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way before guitars and violins were introduced to Japan, Japanese music was dominated by traditional Japanese stringed instruments such as these: A Koto (\u7b8f) is a 13 stringed instrument made of wood. The koto has 13 bridges, which can be moved around to change the sound. A Shamisen (\u4e09\u5473\u7dda) is a three stringed instrument played&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/japanese-instruments\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10573],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","tag-japanese-instruments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}