Biwa 琵琶 - Japanese Lute Instrument - with Benzaiten 弁才天 Biwa Goddess of art eloquence and music

Biwa 琵琶 , a Japanese lute. There are many different pictures with Asian biwa/pipa/bipa. I was wondering why? I have always found different reference images for my Biwa model. That is why I have now investigated and tried to find the differences between the Japanese biwas. I tried to model and assign the 7 Japanese most important ones in the time table. That is the result. Maybe it will help you too. Thank you for your interest.

in addition there is also a short story about Benzaiten. The Biwa goddess of art eloquence and music.