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catgut

On-Yomi: ゲン

Koohii stories:

1) [ikmys] 18-7-2007(27): The thread with a mysterious origin… hint: its not from a plant!

2) [Aerin] 6-4-2008(7): It turns out that catgut is the mystery thread of bowstrings (see 1386).

3) [enryu] 1-9-2009(4): Spiderman vs Gandalf - Gandalf uses his lighting magic to attack spidey but of course spideys too fast, he avoids it while it accidentally blows the cat up, catguts all strewn all over the place.

4) [blannk] 8-9-2009(1): The mystery of Spiderman gutting that cat was solved when we heard the mysterious beauty of his performance on the shamisen.

5) [kapalama] 22-11-2010(): 絃楽器 =弦楽器, 管絃楽 =管弦楽, 三絃 =三弦, 絃歌 =弦歌, 絃 catgut (#2669 絃) ゲン … Parts: 糸 , 玄 … Simplified to 弦 bowstring (#1386 弦) in modern Japanese. … Story: Spiderman uses Mysterious Catgut for his violin strings, and 弦 bowstring (#1386 弦) for his bow. They are actually the same thing though.

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