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Aka Tombo appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Concierto Di Aranjues - Aka Tombo  (Listen)	Tajima Tadashi
Hana - Shakuhachi; Nihon no Shijo  (Listen)
Music of Japan  (Listen)
This is an arrangement for a shakuhachi and orchestra from a song for children, The melody of the song is played by shakuhachi. In the former half of this century the juvenile literature became very popular among the writers and the poets in Japan. Among the poems for children of those days there are a number of such expressing adults' feeling reminiscent of their childhood. "Akatombo" is one of them. There are several species of dragon-flies in Japan and the red dragonfly is one of the most familiar species, which children are very fond of. The music was written by Kosaku Yamada (1886-1965), who led the musical circle of Japan as a composer and conductor in the former half of this century.
Sound of Japan  (Listen)	Mitsuhashi Kifu