Taiko

A kumi-daiko group in Aichi, Japan
Percussion instrument
Other names	wadaiko, taiko drum
Classification	Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	212.2 (Instruments in which the membrane is struck directly, which have tubular bodies.)
Inventor(s)	Unknown, origin possibly from India, China, or Korea.
Developed	5th-7th century CE

Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). means simply "drum" in Japanese. Outside Japan, the word is used to refer to any of the different kinds of Japanese drums (和太鼓, wadaiko, "Japanese drum" in Japanese) and to the more or less new art of taiko drumming bands (sometimes better called, "kumi-daiko", 組太鼓). The taiko drum originated in the country of Japan. This drum was created by Daihachi Oguchi in 1951. The taiko drum makes a very loud, deep sound.