Kei Kin

Medium

Wood, head of snake skin.

Dimensions

Overall: 73.7cm (29in.); Other (body): 5.1cm (2in.); Other (bow): 64.8cm (25 1/2in.)

Classification

Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted

Culture

Japanese

Department

Musical Instruments

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889

Accession Number

89.4.125