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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi by Yokoyama Katsuya in 1964 .

Onku appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Sanbon no Hibiki  (Listen)
Sangai Rinten - 2  (Listen)	Yokoyama Katsuya
Literally meaning "sound poem", this piece was composed in 1964 for performance by the Shakuhachi Sanbon Kai. It is meant to give the feeling of a "haiku in sound".