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The Japanese mouth organ used in gagaku (court music) descended from the Chinese sheng. The lacquered air chamber is often decorated. Here a spider waits for the next victim to be ensnared in the web.
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Title: Shō
Period: Tokugawa
Date: 19th century
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Medium: Bamboo wood, metal
Dimensions: 19 × 2 3/4 in. (48.3 × 7 cm)
Classification: Aerophone-Free Reed-mouth organ
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number: 89.4.2957
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