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This is a Gagaku piece .

Senshûraku appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Gagaku  (Listen)
SENSHÜRAKU (hanshiki-cho) Banshiki-cho is a gagaku scale based on atone corresponding to B natural in western music. There is a tradition that Minamoto Yoriyoshi, head of the Department of Music with the rank of Kenmotsu, and who had originally borne the Chinese surname Wang composed this piece on the order of the Emperor Konoe for his post ascension ceremonies in 1143 hut the Dai Nihonshi (Great History of Japan) notes that in the T'ang shu (History of the T'ang Dynasty) there is an entry for the fifth day of the eighth month of a year during the k'ai-yuan era (713-741) to the effect that a piece called “Ch'ien-ch'iu" (Japanese: Senshu ) was played and the nation reveled and suggests that this may be the origin of this piece.