Who knows the name of the instrument that sounds like a flute commonly used in Japanese anime soundtrack?

This is the shakuhachi or Shinohara flute.

The names of shakuhachi, China Wudi and Japanese traditional musical instruments. Bamboo, with five holes (the first four holes and the last one), is a wind instrument with vibrating edges, named after the length of the pipe is one foot and eight inches. Its timbre is desolate and vast, which can express the ethereal and quiet artistic conception.

Shinohara flute is a traditional Japanese woodwind instrument. It is made of Sichuan bamboo (also known as Bitter Bamboo and Shinohara Bamboo), with air holes and finger holes at the top and paint and synthetic resin inside. It is a kind of flute with simple structure. In traditional Japanese art, it is usually called flute or bamboo flute. Shinohara flute, shakuhachi and flute are flute instruments without reeds.

The characteristic differences of Shinohara flutes include whether there are external scrolls, quantity, material, painting degree, color, number of finger holes (six holes, seven holes), length, modulation types and so on, which leads to the existence of Shinohara flutes in various shapes all over Japan.

Shinohara flute is accepted by the general public and deeply loved by Japanese civilians because of its low production cost and simple decoration.