鸟羽屋 Tobaya guqin silk strings available from manufacturer's online store

If anyone wants to purchase guqin silk strings from Kyoto Japan, you can order directly on the manufacturer's webpage. The information is presented in Chinese. Yes, they are that customer oriented! *smile*

The guqin silk strings produced by the company 鸟羽屋 Tobaya (www.tobaya.co.jp) is called 初音 (はつね pronounced as "Hatsune").

Online ordering of 鸟羽屋 Tobaya brand guqin silk strings can be done at this webpage
https://secure02.red.shared-server.net/www.tobaya.co.jp/FormMail/spgoods_cn/spgoods_cn.html

While I have not ordered any silk strings from Tobaya (yet), I have previously ordered 2 shakuhachi flutes from another Japanese online store before and they arrived in Singapore safe and sound. My personal experience with Japanese online stores has generally been nothing short of fantastic. Excellent and professional service is their industry norm.

If you prefer to order your Tobaya brand Hatsune guqin silk strings from Taobao.com, there are the two online Chinese merchants selling them. Here are the links:

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=18406236934&ali_trackid=2:mm_14507416_2297358_8935934:1349440235_3k2_1870405801

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=15140130342&ali_trackid=2:mm_14507416_2297358_8935934:1349440243_3k8_204053880

Drawings by my 6 year old daughter made during Li XiangTing's guqin performance in Singapore

Drawings by my 6 year old daughter made during Li XiangTing's guqin performance in Singapore, when she was sitting in the 1st row as the guqin pieces were being played.

I asked my daughter who taught her how to draw these pictures in this particular style, and she told me that she was drawing from her imagination. Nobody taught her. She didn't learn this from any school or teacher. I can tell that she loves to draw. *smile*