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Mouth Organ (Sho), 1715 (wood, bamboo, silver, lacquer)

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BST711813
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Mouth Organ (Sho), 1715 (wood, bamboo, silver, lacquer)
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Artist
Masaoki, Fujiwara (fl. early C18th) / Japanese
Location
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Medium
wood, bamboo, silver, lacquer
Date
1715 AD (C18th AD)
Image description

Inscriptions on one of the pipes indicate that the instrument was made in 1715, apparently by a Shinto priest, of the rank of Negi, named Fujiwara Masaoki for the Iwashimizu Shrine. The sho, the Japanese mouth organ descended from the Chinese sheng, is used in gagaku (court music).

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Foster Charitable Fund, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, Frank M. and Mary T.B. Ferrin Fund, John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund, Alice M. Bartlett Fund, and Joyce Arnold Rusoff Fund
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object / musical instrument / court music / wind / asian / music / traditional / mouth organ / gagaku
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