Mokugyo

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Wooden Fish Gong, Mokugyo 木魚



The Fish Gong is a wooden percussion instrument used by Buddhist monks ordained in the Mahayana tradition. It is used during rituals and ceremonies involving recitation of sutras, mantras, or other Buddhist texts. Small ones are for private use, large ones for use in the temple hall. Mokugyo are also used by lay people for their daily recital of the sutras to help them keep the rythm during chanting.

The Fish Gong is also used by Buddhist students in China, Japan and Korea.

Sometimes called : ("Kissing Fish") .

Some fish gongs are also decorated with dragons, see my photo below.


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Here is our Daruma san in his Fish Gong metamorphosis !



Toriyama Seki-en 鳥山石燕
『画図百器徒然袋』Hyakki Yakō series

Toriyama Sekien (1712 – 1788) was an 18th century scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. His most famous for his attempt to catalogue all species of monsters (yōkai) in the Hyakki Yakō series.

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Monster-Like Fish Gong Daruma Toy


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By Kobayashi Issa

なつかしや梅あちこちにゆふ木魚
natsukashi ya ume achi kochi ni yû mokugyo

like old times--
plum blossoms here and there
evening's wooden drum



啄木もやめて聞かよ夕木魚
kitsutsuki mo yamete kiku ka yo yû mokugyo

is the woodpecker
stopping to listen too?
evening's wooden drum



三助が敲く木魚も時雨けり
sansuke ga tataku mokugyo mo shigure keri

the servant beats
his wooden drum...
winter rain


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Tr. David Lanoue


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山里に 収め不動の 鉦響く



Osame-Fudoo -
in the mountain valley
the sound of a gong

Gabi Greve, December 2005


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Drums in the Daruma Museum

Rituelle Buddhistische Instrumente (bonongu) DEUTSCH

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