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This is a Min'yo piece from the Min'yo school . Habu no Minato is also known as: Habu Harbour.

Habu no Minato appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Collection of Shakuhachi Solos by Muraoka Yoshi  (Listen)	Muraoka Yoshi
Music of Japan  (Listen)
This is also an arrangement for koto, shamisen and orchestra by the melody of a popular song. Habu is a small fishing harbor in Izu-Ooshima, a small island near Izu peninsula. The original song was composed in 1923 by Shimpei Nakayama (1887-1952) who wrote many melodies with Japanese feeling, and had a great vogue all over the country in 1930's. As the original words are composed of three stanzas of the same melody, the arranged piece here recorded repeats the melody three times: the first and the third time played by shamisen and the second by koto.