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Miyamoto Okedo-Daiko

Stave-built and light enough to carry

An okedo-daiko is built from staves like a barrel rather than carved from a trunk, which makes it far lighter and rope-tunable — the taiko that gets carried through a festival rather than stood on a frame.

Category

  • Hand Percussion

    Congas, bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, frame drums, and the small instruments that live on a percussion table: tambourines, cowbells, shakers, and claves.

Made by

  • Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten

    Founded in Asakusa in the nineteenth century, Miyamoto Unosuke makes taiko, festival percussion, and the portable shrines they are played beside. It is one of the two names most associated with the instrument outside Japan.