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shakuhachi

shakuhachi

English

Noun

shakuhachi (plural shakuhachis)

  1. (music) A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.

Japanese

Romanization

shakuhachi

  1. rōmaji reading of しゃくはち