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Japanese stringed instrument
Answer for the clue "Japanese stringed instrument ", 4 letters:
koto
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding box and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata 's novel The Old Capital . It is a remake of the 1963 film Twin Sisters of Kyoto .
Usage examples of koto.
The old woman from Haginochaya who still comes to tend the two graves is Shigizawa Teru, a high-ranking member of the Ikuta school of koto players.
But when I was in the second grade -- in the spring, when the double globeflowers at the mouth of the waterfall were in full bloom -- I came home from school one day and was startled to hear the sound of a koto from the inner room.
From the insignia on his police jumpsuit, he clearly outranked Burns and Koto by a number of grades.
Hidemi's cousin from Fukuoka played the koto, and a pair of dancers performed a slow and graceful bugaku.
So when word reached the Cheboygan agent -Koto Shigari - that two Iron Masters in full battle armour were sitting tall in the saddle on the northern shore of the straits, he weighed anchor immediately.