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This is a Maybe Sokyoku - Jiuta piece from the Ikuta Ryű school .

Haru no Shirabe appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Koto - Music of the One-String Ichigenkin  (Listen)
Haru no Shirabe stems from the music of the 13-stringed Sho; it expresses, with detached serenity, the recurring freshness of spring. The song of birds and flowers blooming Betoken spring. The nightingale in the plum tree- I first heard its cry a day or two ago. How beautiful the cherry blossoms As the spring mist fades! Though growing longer, The days of spring never pall. The dusk, too, is wondrous soft With the hazy moon arising. As I doze, who plays the koto So near my pillow? The waves coming and going on the Suma shore: What joys the springtime brings!