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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for koto by Hiratsuka Yoshio in 1970 .

Kanki appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Hibiki - Tokyo Inter-arts In Berlin  (Listen)
The piece, Kanki ("Joy"), is a counterbalance to the predominantly melancholy traditional koto music. In addition to the currently ever more common employment of European instruments in otherwise traditional ensembles (compare, for example, the previous work), the creation of larger ensembles, such as in this piece, is a widespread tendency of contemporary koto composition.