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A dictionary of traditional Japanese musical instruments, from prehistory to the Edo period / by Sumi Gunji and Henry Johnson.

By: Gunji, Sumi, 1930- [author.]
Contributor(s): Johnson, Henry Mabley [author.] | Eideru Kenkyūjo
Language: English, Japanese Publisher: Tokyo : Eideru Kenkyūjo, 2012Description: xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9784871685139; 4871685136Subject(s): Musical instruments -- Japan -- Dictionaries | Musical instruments, Ancient -- Japan -- Dictionaries

"The text of the current book was written at the same time as the Japanese version"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-337) and classification index.

Names of musical instruments in Japanese characters and Roman alphabet.