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Inkin ; A small sounding instrument of wood, carried in the hand and struck with a small stick attached to it with string. Used in a Rinzai Zendō to mark beginning and end of period of meditation.
See Suzuki, The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk. p. 106 (1934).