six-stringed

Updated: May 26, 2025

Besides the six-stringed harp or wagon, much more complex harps or lutes of thirteen or twenty-five strings were used, and in general there was a great increase in the number and variety of instruments. Indeed, we may list as many as twenty kinds of musical instruments and three or four times as many varieties of dance in the Heian epoch.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era