xyz Qin : more info, historic China

David Badagnani Geng, what we both might be hinting at is that many of the Japanese instruments might be in a form similar to what they were when they got them from China (just like they still drink powdered green tea as Chinese did in Tang, or eat "kuai" [膾, strips of raw fish] as Chinese also did back to antiquity). And of course they still use a pipa with 4 frets and played with a huge plectrum.