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Ten'i

天為

[Genre]Modern
[Composed]Yamamoto Hōzan - Shakuhachi

Ten'i appears on the following albums

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Play ButtonTen-I - 1 Works by Yamamoto Hozan Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan
This Shakuhachi solo was composed in traditional "Honkyoku" style. Hozan Yamamoto told about the motif as follows : "Bamboo, grown up in barren soil, is made to Shakuhachi by high human technique. When I am impressed by naive tone of Shakuhachi, I am reminded of human power which conquered nature by natural way. I tried to express in this composition a wonderful world of human beings creating something by law of nature, as the saying is “Heaven has no mouth, and speaks through human lips."