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The Birth of Yamatogoto Culture: Stringed Instruments and the Formation of Complex Society in Pre- and Protohistoric Japan.

Excavated Japanese zithers are likely the oldest surviving stringed instruments in East Asia. This article reviews diachronic changes that occurred in the forms of wood zithers in pre- and protohistoric Japan over approximately two millennia (ca. 1500 B.C.-A.D. 600). It highlights developments such...

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Published in:Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archeology for Asia & the Pacific Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 98 - 129
Main Author: Stromberg, Kirie
Format: Article
Published: University of Hawai'i 2024
Subjects:
Prehistoric peoples
Prehistoric figurines
Social norms
Posture
Stringed instruments
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