What is shakuhachi?

Shakuhachi is a musical instrument, the name of the musical instrument.

The shakuhachi is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, which was introduced to Japan in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Made of bamboo, painted with cinnabar and filled with mixed lacquer, it is now a five-hole (front four and back one), which belongs to a side vibrating wind instrument, named after its length of one foot and eight inches. Its timbre is desolate and vast, and it can show an ethereal and quiet artistic conception.

The shakuhachi was introduced to Japan more than 300 years ago/kloc-0. According to records, the shakuhachi was introduced from China from the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty (58 1-6 18), which was equivalent to playing elegant music in the Tang Dynasty in Nara. From the 20th year of Emperor Gaozu (600 years) to the period of Shoto Kutaishi in Japan, Japan sent "envoys of Sui Dynasty" and "envoys of Tang Dynasty" to China, and many Chinese musical instruments, such as shakuhachi and dragon flute, also spread to Japan. There are still many kinds of shakuhachi made in Tang Dynasty in Masakura Research Institute of Japan. The shakuhachi, which was first introduced to Japan, has only six holes and is used in court music. It is called "Ancient shakuhachi" and is often used as a plaything for dignitaries, so it is also called "shakuhachi". It is said that Shoto Kutaishi, a Japanese, especially likes shakuhachi. The shakuhachi he used in China at that time is still in Horyuji, Nara.