As for the link, freely, please.

Refuse the reproduction of the photograph.

Take the bark of the log

Peel the outside of the paulownia log, and see the place where lumber does a Japanese harp(KOTO).

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To the base, line favor

Give the mark to do lumber on the both sides of the log if you decide the place to take a Japanese harp(KOTO).

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The lumber of the KOTO'S BODY

Cut a log in accordance with the line.Any more, it can't turn back.

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The lumber of the KOTO'S BODY

A pattern is put with the lumber machine only for the Japanese harp(KOTO), and lumber does a cut log in the form of the Japanese harp(KOTO).It is at the time of the pleasure if the grain which is good for the surface of the Japanese harp(KOTO) how appears!!

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Dryness of the KOTO'S BODY

This period which dries it naturally for 3-5 years cracks, and the thing which doesn't become a Japanese harp(KOTO) comes out, too.

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Make a KOTO'S BODY

Shave the outside of the material which dried, an inside.

Sound depends on this grade.

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Make a KOTO'S BODY

A reverse side board is glued.

Make a Japanese harp flat.

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Make a KOTO'S BODY

Burn a completed armor with the trowel

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(Photographer Kazuto Nakazato )

Make a KOTO'S BODY

Polish a burned armor with UDUKURI.

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(Photographer Kazuto Nakazato )

Make the part of the decoration

By the package board (RED thunder), a part for the decoration, in such cases as ENOME which does preparation for the making decoration, SIBUROKU, KASIWABA.

Decoration

Difference characteristics appear in the form of this which ENOME is put in by the craftsman.Long ago, a craftsman's name was understood in this shape.

Decoration

Cut down the space of ENOME's of the both sides, the part which SIBUROKU goes through.

Decoration

Put KASHIWABA while you glue emome and dries.

Decoration

TAMABUCHI (It grows besides semicylindrical.) was about to be put.

Decoration

Put SHIBUROKU.It is seeming to be a Japanese harp(KOTO).

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It is NEKOASI of RED. Take one set in the up-down diagonal.

Decoration

 A part installs it.

(Put it so that there may not be a gap.)

Decoration

A part installs it.

Decoration

A part installs it.

Decoration

Make KUCHIMAE. (After this, put ZESTU.).Next, put NEKOASI, KAMIASI.

Decoration

Even the completion of putting a base seat in the bottom (the right) of KASHIWABA is a little more.

Decoration

Install the tongue which a lacquer picture went into.

Decoration

Put the metal fittings which let through a strings of KOTO.

Tighten a strings of KOTO

Tighten a strings of KOTO.

 

Delivery

Play the completed Japanese harp(KOTO), and it is an end in this that it has a tone ascertained.