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Koto 13-string tuning scales. yo and in, hira-joshi, kumoi-joshi, Japanese music

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Central panel of the triptych The House of Kinpeiro in New Yoshiwara (1871),...

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Kogo no Tsubone, the emperor's mistress, playing a koto; Japanese woodblock print.

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A Japanese musician plucking the strings of a koto with the right hand to generate...

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Koto 13-string tuning scales. yo and in, hira-joshi, kumoi-joshi, Japanese music

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