An Experiment

I've been a fan of the taiko group Yamato, The Drummers of Japan for a long time now. They're great drummers and have a splendid knack for stage craft. Often when I'm looking for inspiration to motivate me to improve, I watch videos of them performing. One video in particular I've gone back and watched a number of times and I had noticed this weird little drum being played. I've decided that the best way for me to figure out what they're all about is to make one.

I grabbed some images from the video to make some comparisons and see what I could piece together about the nature of this Kimyōna chīsana daiko.

This is what I've come up with so far.
first I compared it to a drum on the stage that I knew well.

It appeared to have approximately the same body diameter as a shime.
Next I compared the ratio of body width to height.

In another frame more construction details could be seen. It looked to be basically a small okedo using the same head and lacing system as a katsugi and with body rings spaced evenly above and below the bottom and top heads.

Armed with this information I cut some staves and glued them to create my drum body.