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=== Traditional instruments ===
Several traditional instruments were adopted and assimilated into Japanese culture from various sources.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=Malm |first=William P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yn3VQbqywCsC&q=instrument&pg=PA11 |title=Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments |date=2000 |publisher=Kodansha International |isbn=978-4-7700-2395-7 |language=en}}</ref> They were further experimented with and developed by Japan.<ref name=":7" /> One of the imported end-blown bamboo flutes from China developed into the ''[[shakuhachi]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%9B%85%E6%A5%BD%E5%B0%BA%E5%85%AB-1287571 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323122325/https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%9B%85%E6%A5%BD%E5%B0%BA%E5%85%AB-1287571 | archive-date=23 March 2021 | title=雅楽尺八(ががくしゃくはち)とは？ 意味や使い方 }}</ref> which became the ritual instrument of the ''[[Fuke-shū|Fuke]]'' sect of Zen monks.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Hughes |first=David W. |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315172354/ashgate-research-companion-japanese-music-alison-mcqueen-tokita-david-hughes |title=The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music |date=2017-02-09 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-17235-4 |location=London |pages=6 |doi=10.4324/9781315172354}}</ref> By the middle of the eighteenth century, in secular performances, the ''[[shamisen]] lute'' and ''[[Koto (instrument)|koto]]'', invented in China and brought to Japan during the [[Nara Period]],<ref>https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/koto/koto01.html#:~:text=It's%20said%20that%20the%20koto,period%20(710%E2%80%93794) {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> 13-string ''[[zither]]'' as used for genteel entertainment and professionally controlled by blind musicians who had the rights to ''[[Heike Shamisen|heike]]'' narrative.<ref name=":8" /> The ''[[shamisen]]'', modified from the Chinese [[sanxian]] introduced via the Ryukyu Islands in the late sixteenth century, came into its own in the theatrical contexts of ''[[bunraku]]'' puppet drama and ''[[kabuki]]'' drama.<ref name=":8" />