Title: Kei Kin
Object type: Kei Kin
Date: 19th century
Culture: Japanese
Medium: Wood, head of snake skin.
Dimensions: Overall: 73.7cm (29in.); Other (body): 5.1cm (2in.); Other (bow): 64.8cm (25 1/2in.)
Classification: Chordophone-Lute-bowed-unfretted
Credit line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Geography:     Japan      
Department: Musical Instruments
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY