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This is a Modern piece . Kotoba no Yoru is also known as: The night of words. This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Chikuma Jun .

History (from Sugawara Kuniyoshi)
The shakuhachi is an extremely refined instrument which as yet is still comparatively unknown. It is particularly difficult to find a substitute for the profoundness of the five-holed shakuhachi. As a specialist in Arabic music, I wanted to create something which only I was capable of composing for the shakuhachi, works with the subtleties of the traditional theoretical Arabic melodic patterns called maqam. This work combines these maqam with traditional shakuhachi techniques. - Jun Chikuma

Kotoba no Yoru appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Masters of Zen - Ugetsufu  (Listen)	Sugawara Kuniyoshi
The shakuhachi is an extremely refined instrument which as yet is still comparatively unknown. It is particularly difficult to find a substitute for the profoundness of the five-holed shakuhachi. As a specialist in Arabic music, I wanted to create something which only I was capable of composing for the shakuhachi, works with the subtleties of the traditional theoretical Arabic melodic patterns called maqam. This work combines these maqam with traditional shakuhachi techniques. - Jun Chikuma
Ugetsufu  (Listen)	Sugawara Kuniyoshi
"The shakuhachi is an extremely refined instrument which as yet is still comparatively unknown. It is particularly difficult to find a substitute for the profoundness of the five-holed shakuhachi. As a specialist in Arabic music, I wanted to create something which only I was capable of composing for the shakuhachi. I thought of combining the resonance and spirituality of the traditional shakuhachi works with the subtleties of the traditional theoretical Arabic melodic patterns called maqam. This work combines these maqam with traditional shakuhachi techniques." (Jun Chikuma) Jun Chikuma is an expert performer on and scholar of the Arabic nay and as such he has participated in recordings of traditional Arabic music. As a composer he has written for Arabic, Japanese and Western Instruments and has several recordings of his works.