Yokobue

Various kinds of Yokobue

A yokobue (横笛) is a generic term for Japanese transverse flute or fue includes Komabue, Nōkan, Ryūteki, Shinobue.

These flutes have an extra closed chamber (for improved timbre and tonal qualities) that extends past the chin to the left shoulder and can be used as a rest the way violins are rested on the left shoulder.

Yokobue in media

David Carradine carried a yokobue in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill movies and Bruce Lee's The Silent Flute.

Traditional Japanese musical instruments

String

Plucked	Biwa Ichigenkin Koto Kugo Sanshin Gottan Kankara Shamisen Yamatogoto Tonkori

Bowed	Kokyū

Wind

Flutes and
oboes

Gakubue Kagurabue Komabue Minteki Nōkan Ryūteki Shinobue Yokobue

Hichiriki Hotchiku Shakuhachi

Free-reed
pipes

Shō
Yu

Horns

Horagai

Percussion

Drums	Kakko Taiko Ōtsuzumi Shime-daiko Tsuzumi Tsuri-daiko Ikko San-no-tsuzumi Den-den daiko

Blocks	Hyōshigi Mokugyo Sasara Ita-sasara Binzasara Kokiriko Shakubyoshi Sanba

Gongs	Shōko Kagura suzu Kane

Others

Mukkuri

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Yokobue

See also

Yokobue in media