Hand-Drum Body (Ko-tsuzumi Dō) with Container Box

Hand-Drum Body: Harvested rice field design
Container Box: aoi crest and scattered fan design
Muromachi period,16th c.
Owned by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1st Owari Tokugawa Yoshinao

Noh uses four instruments: a flute (Nokan), a small hand-drum (Ko-tsuzumi) that is played on the left shoulder, a large hand-drum (O-tsuzumi) played at the left hip-side, and a stick-drum (Taiko). The 1st Owari Tokugawa Lord, Yoshinao, owned a Ko-tsuzumi named Karita and named Kyakurai and in fact almost all the noh instruments in the museum belonged to and were played by the head or other members of the Owari Tokugawa Clan.