Decorated with sixty cranes in gold and silver, and wild geese flying all over it, this koto represents a crouching dragon. "This object has art, it has music, it's got myth, but behind all that there's a very human story," says curator J. Kenneth Moore.
Listen to an example of koto music and take a closer look at the instrument.
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