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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 

 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 



The Ainos are not a very musical people, aud the only instrument 

 that can positively be identified as their own is 

 a kiud of Jew's harp made of bamboo. Fig. 80 



Fig. 80. 

 A Mokuki Playbk. 



shows this instrument and how it is played. The one 

 in the Museum collection measures 5| inches in 

 length. 



There is a kind of five-stringed guitar, which I have 

 only seen figured in books. At the Sapporo Museum 

 there is a three- stringed instrument, but of quite a dif- 

 ferent shape. The former, known as the tonJcari, has 

 been described by Dixon in the "Chrysanthemum 

 Magazine," of 18S2, where there is an excellent illus- 

 tration ; but since that publication is not now accessi- 

 ble, Fig. 81 is copied from a Japanese makimono belong- 

 ing to Dr. G. Brown Goode. Mr. Blackiston, in speak- 

 ing of this instrument, says it was mentioned by a 

 Japanese traveler in Yezo long before the Ainos from 

 Saghalin took up their abode in Yezo, from which he 

 infers that it was not introduced from Saghalin. It is 

 not common, and in the course of my travels I was 

 unable to discover a single one, although the instru- 

 ment was known to the Ainos in different sections of 

 the country. 



Fig. 81. 



TONKAEI. 



