琴

yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer)

Obsolete term

piano

playing on the koto

Colloquial

qin (7-stringed Chinese zither); guqin; seven-stringed koto

Japanese variety of music box (invented in 1892 by Toda Kindo)

musical box; music box

playing the koto

Music

guqin (Chinese seven-string zither)

buried earthen jar that makes sound when water drips into it (garden feature)

single-stringed Japanese zither

wagon; yamatogoto; six-stringed native Japanese zither

trigon (ancient triangular harp); sambuca

koto

yamatogoto; wagon; six or seven-stringed native Japanese zither

gayageum (12-stringed Korean zither)

mouth harp; Jew's harp

xiqin (2-stringed Chinese musical instrument)

harp seal (Phoca groenlandica)

Pun on 良き事聞く

dyeing pattern with a yoki, koto bridge and a chrysanthemum

two-stringed koto

single-stringed Japanese zither

five-stringed instrument; pentachord

Edo-period mouth harp (with a hairpin-like frame and a long straight tongue)

Tsukushi-goto (earliest school of solo koto music); Tsukushi school

koto used in Tsukushi-goto music

koto erected in one's yard as decoration during the Festival to Plead for Skills