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This is a Shinkyoku piece . Inori (Seifu) is also known as: Adoration. This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Yoshida Seifu in 1925 .

Inori (Seifu) appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Koto Music of Japan - Music for Japanese Instruments  (Listen)	Yamakawa Naoharu
(Adoration) When the Polish nobleman, Count Lubiensky, visited Japan in 1925, he commissioned this music for a bellet of his creation, inspired by ancient Greek sculpture, expressing the chaste devotions offered by the Athenian maidens to their gods. The music takes the following form: Intorduction - The chaste devotion of the maidens - Joy that the gods will answer their prayer - Terror that their prayers may not be answered - Confidence that their prayers, if sufficiently fervent, will surely be heard.