Occasionally, kokyu music, which was influenced mainly by the music of the shakuhachi and other Japanese flutes, further influenced the music of the shamisen (Jiuta), but from the later Edo period kokyu music also had a tendency to participate in Jiuta.
特に尺八や笛から影響を受けた曲が生まれ、それが更に三味線(地歌)に取り入れられたりすることもあったが、江戸時代後期に入るとやはり地歌に便乗する面が強くなったといえる。