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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi in 1979.

Kaze no Kyoku appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Sun - Moon  (Listen)	Nakamura Akikazu
This was my first piece for Shakuhachi (48.5 cm) and was composed in 1979. I was fascinated by the mysterious instrument whose clean and pure sound struck me as the essence of Buddhism. When I heard the Shakuhachi, I imagined a calm silence (serenity) on earth long before there was any sound.