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This is a Modern piece .

Shiki Soku Zeku III appears on the following albums:

Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
Gakuon Jyu  (Listen)	Fukuda Teruhisa
Kaneta has previously created the "Shiki-soku-zeKuu I" for the shakuhachi and violin and also the "Shiki-soku-zeKuu II" for the shakuhachi and orchestra. In 1996 he has composed "Shiki-soku-zeKuu III" a solo for the shakuhachi, using components and overlaying themes that were used in the previous works while also including new and original material. The piece is mostly structured using the cadenza that was used in the shakuhachi in "Shiki-soku-zeKuu II". The character expressing "Shiki" portrays all things that have form in the Buddhist scripts, the character "Ko" means things that have no form or reality. The word, "Shiki-soku-zeKuu" means that all things that have form have no reality. Choji Kaneta was born in 1948 in Hokkaido and finished the postgraduate course at The Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. Presently he works at his alma mater. His main works include, "Tenkei I" for orchestra, "Ambivalence IV (Fg solo)" and "A Round for the Orchestra" that included a shakuhachi solo part.