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This is a Modern piece . This piece was composed for shakuhachi in 1967.

History (from Neptune, John Kaizan)
A part of the unique culture of Okinawa and the other islands in the Ryukyus is the traditional five-tone scale used in this piece. It is enhanced without the three-stringed, banjo-like sanshin instrument of those islands to give the composition a folksy, distinctly non-Japanese flavor.

Ryukyu appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Circle, The  (Listen)	Neptune, John Kaizan
A part of the unique culture of Okinawa and the other islands in the Ryukyus is the traditional five-tone scale used in this piece. It is enhanced without the three-stringed, banjo-like sanshin instrument of those islands to give the composition a folksy, distinctly non-Japanese flavor.