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Yamato Dawn

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[Genre]Modern
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Yamato Dawn appears on the following albums

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Tokyosphere Shakuhachi : John Kaizan Neptune
This piece was written to be the opening number for a modern dance performance by Keiko Fujii. Yamato is the word for ancient Japan. For most of the piece, the koto players use a pizzicato technique, plucking the strings with fingers instead of the "tsume" finger picks, which gives the koto a mellow harp-like sound to go with the deep sound of the 24 "bass" shakuhachi. A five-tone Japanese scale is used.