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This is a Sokyoku piece .

Kokemizu appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Fascination of the Koto 1  (Listen)		Yonekawa Megumi
Composed in 1939. the text is a tanka poem of Monky Ryokan (1758-1831), symbolizing the clarity of his mind with the image of water running through moss and rocks. The vocal part is sung by a singer, rather than by the koto player himself as is traditional.