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This is a Modern piece from the Min'yo school . This piece was composed for koto by Taki Rentaro in 1901 .

Kojo no Tsuki appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Bamboo Spirit	Ross, Peter
Challenging Eternity Disk 05  (Listen)
Endless Sea - Impressions of Japan  (Listen)	Singer, John
Flower Dance - Japanese Folk Melodies  (Listen)
The music, which opens with koto, is the Kojo no tsuki composed by Rentaro Taki in 1901. The title signifies the moon viewed from a desolate castle. It is one of the oldest Japanese songs written on the Western scale. Bansui Doi wrote a poem to this music at the Aoba castle in Sendai.
Flute and Koto of Japan  (Listen)	Yamaguchi Goro		Yonekawa Toshiko
Hana - Shakuhachi; Nihon no Shijo  (Listen)	Yes
Isaac Stern - The Classic Melodies of Japan  (Listen)	Yamamoto Hozan
Japan Revisited  (Listen)
Koto Music of Japan  (Listen)
Koto no Kyoshu Nihon no Merodi-shu  (Listen)
Koto no Miryoku - Disk 2  (Listen)
Koto no Shirabe - In Memory of Miyagi Michio  (Listen)		Makise Kiyoko
Memories of My Home  (Listen)	Lee, Dr Riley Kelly
Moonlit Castle  (Listen)	Singer, John
Music of Japan  (Listen)
An arrangement for a shakuhachi and orchestra of a melody composed by Rentaro Taki (1879-1903). He is well known to Japanese people as an earliest composer of Western music in Japan. He composed many nice songs for primary and middle school pupils, and they are quite popular among Japanese still now. "Kojo no Tsuki" is one of them. Kojo is a ruined castle and tsuki is the moon. The poem for the original song describes the moonlight over the ruined castle and expresses the longing for the days when the castle was prospering.
Musical Memories of Japan  (Listen)
Nihon no Shirabe  (Listen)
Shakuhachi - Japanese Traditional Music  (Listen)	Uemura Shozan
"Kojo no Tsuki" ("The Moon Over the Lake"), is a duet composed by Nakao Tozan in 1922 at his home during a late fall evening in Tokyo. It depicts the cool autumn air as it whips up small ripples on a lake, each of which reflects the moon. The latter half of the piece features a 3/8 rhythm which suggests the moonlight as it wavers on the waves. This piece was the first to utilize three-beat rhythm in shakuhachi music.
Sound of Japan  (Listen)	Mitsuhashi Kifu
Tozan Ryu - Shakuhachi Dai Zen Shu - Vol 1  (Listen)
Tozan Ryu - Shakuhachi Honkyoku  (Listen)
Tozan Ryu Shakuhachi Honkyoku Shu - Vol 2  (Listen)
View From Here, The	Ross, Peter