The International Shakuhachi Society

Hana

花

This is a piece of genre Shinkyoku. Also Known As : Blossoms. This piece was composed for Shakuhachi by the person Yamaguchi Goro in 1963. This piece was composed for Koto by the person Yamaguchi Goro in the year 1963.

Hana appears on the following albums

	Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
	Best Take 2 - Tadao Sawai
	Challenging Eternity Disk 03
	Fascination of the Koto 1		Yonekawa Toshiko
Flowers. No. 60. Composed in 1969. The text is a tanka poem written by Yosano Hirosi (1873-1935). Th epoet uses the image of flowers to suggest the fragility of the human mind. Two koto parts and two vocal parts make an interesting ensemble piece.
	Hana - Shakuhachi; Nihon no Shijo
	Koto no Kyoshu Nihon no Merodi-shu
	Music of Japan
This is also a work of Rentaro Taki. The original piece is a two-part chorus and is written by the techniques of purely Western music. The present recording is an arrangement for koto, shamisen and orchestra. The two solo instruments play the soprano melody alternately. The word hana means flowers in general. But, it frequently stands for cherry- blossoms because, as known to all over the world, the cherry-blossoms is the most representative flower of Japan. The poem describes the beautiful scenery of the cherry- blossoms along the river- side of the Sumida in Tokyo. Hanami, or cherry blossoms viewing, is one of the merriest events of the year in Japanese life. As it has been sung as a musical lesson at middle schools for more than 60 years, its melody and word is well-known to almost every Japanese.
	Nihon no Shirabe

The International Shakuhachi Society - 2013