Gekkin for Xing-era Chinese music were imported from China through Nagasaki, but, later, it was manufactured in Japan imitating the Chinese instruments and it came to be used for performances of Japanese folk melody other than Xing-era Chinese music.
清楽の月琴は長崎経由で中国から輸入されたが、ほどなく日本国内でも模倣製作され、清楽以外の俗曲の演奏にも用いられるようになった。