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Emperor Huizong (November 2, 1082 – June 4, 1135; r. 1100-1126) was the eighth and one of the most famous emperors of the Song Dynasty of China. Huizong was artistic and extremely talented. He wrote poems of his own ...

The koto (Japanese: 箏, Sino-Japanese reading "sō"; more commonly, though not quite correctly, the character 琴, Sino-Japanese reading "kin" is used) is a traditional stringed musical instrument ...

Traditionally the instrument was called simply qin 「琴」, which can also be written as 琹, 珡 or ... many other musical instruments as well. The yangqin (揚|揚]]琴/扬琴) hammered dulcimer, the huqin (胡|胡 ...