One pipe - Ikkan

Japanese: 一管 - いっかん

〘 noun 〙① One of the objects shaped like a flute, a brush, etc. ※Bunmeihon Setsuyoshu (middle Muromachi period) "Ikkwan flute brush" ※Kowaka Fuemaki (late Muromachi period - early modern period) "Ikkwan ka hitote" [Jin Shu - Biography of Cao Pi ] ② In Noh, one of the flute players among the musicians plays only one flute in sync with a Noh piece. [Noh school names (Kojiki Ruien - Music and dance 14)] ③ (━suru) To unify and manage or control. To govern. ※Konjaku-hyo (1874) <Oka Sankei> Vol. 1 "The sixty provinces are so vast that it is impossible to control them all."

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 笛、筆など管の形になっているもの一つ。※文明本節用集（室町中）「一管イックヮン笛筆」※幸若・笛巻（室町末‐近世初）「笛を一くゎんかひとって」〔晉書‐曹毗伝〕② 能楽で、囃子方(はやしかた)のうちの笛方の一人が、能笛一本だけを謡曲に合わせて吹き奏でること。〔謡諸流名寄（古事類苑・楽舞一四）〕③ (━する) 統一して管理したり支配したりすること。統治。※今昔較（1874）〈岡三慶〉上「夫六十州は至て広し〈略〉尽く是を一管する能はず」

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