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神楽笛

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The kagurabue (神楽笛) is a six or seven-hole transverse bamboo flute used to support Japanese kagura performance. The kagurabue can also be known as a yamatobue (大和笛).

横笛である神楽笛。穴が六つある。
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The kagurabue (神楽笛) is a six or seven-hole transverse bamboo flute used to support Japanese kagura performance. The kagurabue can also be known as a yamatobue (大和笛). 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Kagurabue”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

kagurabue is Japanese transverse flute, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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