(It was played in the 1930s, too.) The four-stringed biwa with more than a dozen frets that was introduced to the Ming Dynasty had been handed down in Vietnam and it is written biwa but pronounced as 'tipa.'
（1930年代にも演奏）ベトナムにはおそらく明代に伝播した四弦十数柱のものが伝承され、琵琶と書いて「ティパ」と発音する。