biwa

Summary

biwa is a type of musical instrument^[1]. biwa draws 269 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #95 of 399).^[2]

Key Facts

• biwa is in the country of Japan^[3].
• biwa's image is recorded as Biwa.png^[4].
• biwa's image is recorded as Satsuma-biwa (19th century), Japan - MIM PHX.jpg^[5].
• biwa's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument^[6].
• biwa's GND ID is recorded as 4315917-5^[7].
• biwa's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85014494^[8].
• biwa's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12307414f^[9].
• biwa's subclass of is recorded as pipa^[10].
• biwa's subclass of is recorded as necked bowl lute^[11].
• biwa's subclass of is recorded as traditional Japanese musical instrument^[12].
• biwa's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00560696^[13].
• biwa's Commons category is recorded as Biwa^[14].
• biwa's said to be the same as is recorded as pipa^[15].
• biwa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02w4bh^[16].
• biwa's topic's main category is recorded as Q10806638^[17].
• biwa's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300214211^[18].
• biwa's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 787.85^[19].
• biwa's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 787.8519^[20].
• biwa's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0084851^[21].
• biwa's MusicBrainz instrument ID is recorded as 1b165fa4-8510-4a3e-a2b5-2d38baf55176^[22].
• biwa's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[23].
• biwa's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000260023^[24].
• biwa's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/biwa^[25].
• biwa's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.321^[26].
• biwa's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 1865689^[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for biwa include Lake Biwa^[28], a tectonic lake^[29], in Japan^[30], founded in -4400000^[31].

Why It Matters

biwa draws 269 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_musical_instrument category, ranking #95 of 399).^[2] biwa has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] biwa is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for biwa include Lake Biwa^[28], a tectonic lake^[29], in Japan^[30], founded in -4400000^[31].