Ainu fiddle

Several types of Ainu fiddle have been described by anthropologists of the Ainu people of Northern Japan and the adjoining Russian Far East islands of Sakhalin and Kuril.

The missionary-anthropologist John Batchelor noted of the Sakhalin Ainu (1901):

And further of those of Karafuto (1892):

See also Ainu music Tonkori

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