It even has a role inside Japan’s mythology.
Here are some instruments that originated straight from Japan :ġ – 和琴 (wagon), also called 大和琴 (yamatogoto) or 東琴 (azumagoto) is a stringed instrument and believed to be one of the oldest in Japan. However, they derived from that and usually often divided instruments into percussion, strings and winds, the same way we do in the West. Now, formerly, in Japan, classification-wise, they followed the Chinese principle of dividing instruments into 8 categories based on the materials out of which they were made: metal, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, clay, hide and wood. Although some instruments like the wagon (和琴), the kagurabue (神楽笛) or the shakubyoushi (笏拍子) originated from Japan, most of the traditional instruments we know today were brought from the from the Asian contient to Japan and then continued to evolve inside the country into the instruments that we’ll talk about just a bit later on. These wagakki (which is also the name of a J-Rock band using traditional instruments) are traditional Japanese instruments which were used during the Antiquity. They’re pretty different from western instruments and it’s really interesting. These instruments are called Wagakki (和楽器, literally Japanese instruments) and were used during the Antiquity.
As it turns out, there are plenty of traditional instruments in Japan with a lot of variety in all classifications, from strings, to winds, to drums…. As a musician and general music lover, I’ve been wanting to learn more about Japanese traditional instruments and music.
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