National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties
of National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, Japan

This stand for a kakko drum is made of wood and has a red-lacquered surface. The legs are two curved plates, holding the top plate in between, with fudegaeshi (stopper) shaped bulges on the top edges. The top plate is supported from below by the bars called makuita and it has boat-shaped curves around both ends to put the skins of kakko on. Although the drum and the stand are pictured separately in The Pictures of the Treasures (catalogue of the Hōryūji Treasures), they are thought to have originally been one set, because the upper parts of the legs have the traces of drumstick-hitting that fit the drumsticks of the drum and the skins of the drum (N-106) come just on the boat-shaped holder when it is put on the dent of the top plate.