"Songs, dancing, chanting, teas ceremonies, go, backgammon, gambling, drinking and carousing, the koto, the biwa, the samisen, all arts, drama, plays...
"Down-with-the-Cities"
Nakashima, Tadashi
First we had flower arrangement, ancient and modern styles, then examples of the ancient etiquette in serving tea and cakes to guests, and then of inferiors calling on superiors; then koto playing-a thirteen-stringed harp that lies on the floor-first two girls and the teacher, and then a solo by the teacher.
"Letters from China and Japan"
John Dewey Alice Chipman Dewey
"Unfamiliar obstacles," remarks Professor koto, "made themselves apparent, and small hills covered with forest had come into sight which had not been seen before."
"A Study of Recent Earthquakes"
Charles Davison