東琴

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”).[1] The koto changes to goto as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

東琴 (hiragana あずまごと, rōmaji azumagoto, historical hiragana あづまごと)

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 (わ)琴 (ごん) (wagon), 倭 (わ)琴 (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)

References

1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan