東琴

Japanese

東琴 (azumagoto): Fujiwara no Otsugu playing the six-stringed azumagoto.

Kanji in this term
東	琴
あずま Grade: 2	こと > ごと Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 東 (azuma, archaic word for the east; by extension, Japan) +‎ 琴 (koto, “a koto, a zither”). The koto changes to goto as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) あずまご​と [àzúmágóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [4])
• IPA^(key): [a̠zɨᵝma̠ɡo̞to̞]

Noun

東(あずま)琴(ごと) • (azumagoto) ^{←あづまごと (adumagoto)?}

1. (music) a six-stringed koto or zither used to perform kagura music, more common in ancient times

Synonyms

• 大和琴(やまとごと) (yamatogoto), 倭琴(やまとごと) (yamatogoto)
• 和琴(わごん) (wagon), 倭琴(わごん) (wagon)
• 六弦琴(ろくげんきん) (rokugenkin), 六絃琴(ろくげんきん) (rokugenkin)
• 六(む)つの緒(お) (mutsu no o)