大和琴

Japanese

大和琴 (yamatogoto): Fujiwara no Otsugu playing the six-stringed yamatogoto.
Kanji in this term
大 和 琴
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Etymology

Compound of 大和 (Yamato, ancient name for Japan) +‎ 琴 (koto, “a koto, a zither”).[1] The koto changes to goto as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)
    • (Tokyo) やまとご​と [yàmátógóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [4])[2]
    • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠to̞ɡo̞to̞]

Alternative forms

Noun

大和琴 (hiragana やまとごと, rōmaji yamatogoto)

  1. (music) a six-stringed koto or zither used to perform kagura music, more common in ancient times

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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