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Kare San Sui

枯山水

Kare San Sui appears on the following albums

Album Artist
Play ButtonFascination of the Shakuhachi - 2 Shamisen : Tomiyama Seikin II
Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan
Composed by YAMAMOTO Hozan as a duet piece for sangen and shakuhachi. Like the koto, both the sangen and shakuhachi can provide very delicate portamento and thus the two intruments share a similar flavor. This piece employs the whole range of sangen technique to emphasize a new fusion between the sangen and shakuhachi, putting importance on the beauty of Ma, or space. The piece develops as if telling a story, expressing stillness, psychological tension and the encounter between the two instruments. The sangen is played by TOMIYAMA Kiyotaka and the shakuhachi used here is a ni-syaku-kan (about 60-centimeter long).

Hōzan Yamamoto's Music Vol. 5 Shamisen : Yuize Shin'ichi
Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan