小こ拍びょう子し

noun

small wooden clappers; rakugo scene-change markers

A pair of square wooden rods used in Kansai-style rakugo storytelling to signal scene transitions or punctuate the performance.

• 上かみ方がた落らく語ごでは、小こ拍子びょうしを打うって場ば面めんの変かわり目めを知しらせる。

  In Kamigata rakugo, they strike the kobyōshi to signal a scene change.