Wooden fish

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

A wooden fish, also known as a muyu, moktak, mogeo, mokugyo, Chinese temple block, or wooden bell is a type of woodblock that originated from China that is used as a percussion instrument by monks and lay people in the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism.

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