A wooden fish, also known as a Chinese temple block, wooden bell, or muyu, is a type of woodblock that originated from East Asia that is used by monks...

Castanets. There is also the idiophone, which is also called a wooden fish. This type of fish drum is used to accompany performers of changben or Chinese...

robe(which indicated a particularly eminent monastic), the ruyi scepter, the "wooden fish", the ring staff (khakkhara), The Eighteen Arhats (or Luohan) (Chinese:...

20th-century American, originally a brand name, later generic Tongue drum The wooden fish works like a slit drum but is rarely classified with the other slit drums...

Fishing techniques are methods for catching fish. The term may also be applied to methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs (shellfish...

replace wooden-hulls in the late 1950s. Beginning in the 1970s, new regulations began to greatly restrict gill-net fishing, making the fish tug all but...

Stockfish is unsalted fish, especially cod, dried by cold air and wind on wooden racks (which are called "hjell" in Norway) on the foreshore. The drying...

spun from fine silk, and the use of "wooden fish", likely an early type of surface lure, to catch larger fish had been wide spread at least since the...

a pair of flat wooden sticks Mokugyo (木魚, also called 'wooden fish') – woodblock carved in the shape of a fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used...

rather than in clumps, on the branch, as well as an aromatic variety. Wooden Fish Songs, by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, is a historical novel based on Lue's life...

where it is commonly used in religious ceremonies. It is a carved hollow wooden instrument with a large slit. In its traditional form, the muyu, the shape...

A fish wheel, also known as a salmon wheel, is a device situated in rivers to catch fish which looks and operates like a watermill. However, in addition...

common name used for either of the two species of North Atlantic marine fish in the genus Pollachius. Pollachius pollachius is referred to as "pollock"...

Southeast Asian fish sauce is often made from anchovies, salt, and water, and is intensely flavoured. Anchovies and salt are arranged in wooden barrels to...

Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish (May 19, 1870 – January 16, 1936) was an American serial killer, rapist, child molester and cannibal who committed at least...

related to Punggyeong. Wooden fish Lee, O.-Young (2012-08-21). Things Korean. Tuttle Publishing. p. 367. ISBN 9781462908400. "Wooden fish gongs and wind chimes:...

board Australia Wood block Unpitched 111.24 Idiophone Wood scraper block Wooden fish China Both 111.24 Idiophone Xylophone Ghana, Uganda, Zambia Pitched 111...

Pinyin: mùyúshū, literally 'wooden fish book'), that supposedly has its roots in Buddhist chants accompanied by wooden fish. Mukjyu texts were popular...

home and gift shop, and washed away one of the cove's characteristic wooden fish sheds. In January 2021, the federal and provincial governments announced...

Whether fish sleep or not is an open question, to the point of having inspired the title of several popular science books. In birds and mammals, sleep...

rhythmic instrument during sutra chanting to keep time, similar to the wooden fish. The khakkhara came to symbolize monks in Chinese literature, serving...

weighted bamboo pole to the rhythm of the head master's striking his wooden fish while using the bottom end of the pole. San Te struggles to lift the...

ends of two rails into a continuous track. The name is derived from fish, a wooden reinforcement of a "built-up" ship's mast that helped round out its...

allowing it to ferment. A fermentation process of at least six months gives the fish its characteristic strong smell and somewhat acidic taste. A newly opened...

their drums; the man on the left holds an extremely rare type of carved wooden fish totem. Baal, J. van (2007). "Marind-anim". World Culture Encyclopedia...

"strummed lyrics" (tanci) of the Lower Yangtze Delta, the Cantonese Wooden Fish tradition (muyu or muk-yu) and the Drum Songs (guci) of north China....

Greenwood, for maintenance. The mistaken belief that Washington's dentures were wooden was widely accepted by 19th century historians and appeared as fact in school...

dynasty saw percussion instruments such as clappers, troughs, wooden fish, and yǔ (wooden tiger). Wind instruments such as flute, pan-pipes, pitch-pipes...

Oxyrhynchus fish depicted as bronze figurines, mural paintings, or wooden coffins in the shape of fish with downturned snouts, with horned sun-disc crowns like...

friction idiophone, (Hornbostel–Sachs classification 133.1). In this mode, a wooden mallet sometimes called a wand or puja is rotated around the outside rim...