different between wooden vs hyoshigi

English

From wood +? -en. Dates from 1530s, gradually replaced treen (“made from a tree”), from Middle English treen, from Old English triewen.

wooden (comparative more wooden, superlative most wooden)

Made of wood.
(figuratively) As if made of wood; moving awkwardly, or speaking with dull lack of emotion.

From Japanese ???.

hyoshigi (plural hyoshigi)

(sumo) One of the wooden sticks that are clapped by the yobidashi to draw the spectator's attention.
- 1978, Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea, Vintage 1999, p. 247:
  I put the glasses down and found that my heart was beating fast, thumping with an accelerating sound like that of the hyoshigi which I had last heard in that sombre vaporous gallery in the Wallace Collection.

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