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This is a Koten piece from the Undetermined school .

Kokû (Don't know which version) appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Calligraphy	Matousek, Vlastislav
Chikusei  (Listen)
Fuke Shu Honkyoku; Kyorei  (Listen)	Nishimura Koku
Heart of Bamboo, The  (Listen)	Seldin, Ronnie Nyogetsu
Ichi on Buttsu - One sound Enlightenment  (Listen)	Seldin, Ronnie Nyogetsu
Koku, or "Bell ringing in the Empty Sky," is one of the three oldest honkyoku (San-Koten). It is said to have been composed after death of the Zen monk Fuke-Zenji, patriarch of the shakuhachi, who in life is supposed to have walked around ringing a small hand-bell. In the legend the monk predicts the day of his own death. When the villagers hear of his death, they open his coffin and find it empty. However, they look to the sky and clearly hear the sound of a bell getting fainter, as if ascending to the clear, blue sky. The music of Koku ("empty sky") supposedly represents this event.
Koku  (Listen)	Monden Tekiku
Shakuhachi - Classical Modern Best 30 - 01  (Listen)
Shakuhachi - Ryudo - 01  (Listen)	Takahashi Ryudo
Shakuhachi Tokusen  (Listen)	Aoki Reibo II
Sound of Zen, The  (Listen)	Okuda Atsuya
Souvenir of Japan - Shakuhachi Komusoh and Suizen  (Listen)
Take no Shirabe; Fuke Shu Honkyoku  (Listen)	Yes