wooden fish (wooden bell used in temples)

~ Percussion instrument

Description

Highly stylised wooden block-bell, it is used in religious ritual. Its prototype, fish board (gyoban) is more obviously shaped like a fish.

Relationships

from:China
Japan
Korea
Korea
Vietnam
type of:slit drum (Hollow wooden idiophone)
derivations (as muyu):temple blocks
picture:https://staticbrainz.org/irombook/mokugyo/mokugyo.png [info]
Wikidata:Q1474569 [info]
other databases:https://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/gakki/gakki_jiten_mokugyo.html [info]