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In a play titled for one of these objects, Zhào Wǔniáng carries one of them and a portrait as she searches for her husband Cai Yong; that play by Yuan dramatist Gao Ming is titled “The Story of” one of these objects. The title poet carries one of these objects into battle instead of a weapon in Zeami’s play Atsumori. A female demon becomes trapped inside a huge one of these objects (-5[1])in the Noh play Dōjōji. Blind itinerant “priests” named for and carrying a type of these objects recited The Tale of the Heike. Seated users of these objects appear with standing storytellers in (-5[1])Korean pansori. (10[1])In performances of works like Farewell My Concubine, the voices of actors (10[1])are mirrored by users of these objects, (-5[1])which include the erhu. For 10 points, kabuki theater is accompanied (-5[1])by performers on what objects such as the shamisen? ■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: musical instruments [accept specific musical instruments like drums, bells, lutes, pipas, flutes, or pipes; accept classes of musical instruments like percussion or woodwinds] (Gao Ming wrote The Story of the Lute, also called The Tale of the Pipa.)
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