Kōjō no Tsuki appears on the following albums

	Album	Artist
	Bamboo Spirit	Shakuhachi : Peter Ross
	Challenging Eternity Disk 05	Koto : Nakashima Yasuko
	Endless Sea - Impressions of Japan	Shakuhachi : John Singer
	Flower Dance - Japanese Folk Melodies
The music, which opens with koto, is the Kojo no tsuki composed by Rentaro Taki in 1901. The title signifies the moon viewed from a desolate castle. It is one of the oldest Japanese songs written on the Western scale. Bansui Doi wrote a poem to this music at the Aoba castle in Sendai.
	Flute and Koto of Japan	Shamisen : Yonekawa Toshiko Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
	Hana - Shakuhachi; Nihon no Shijo	Shakuhachi : Miyata Kōhachirō
	Isaac Stern - The Classic Melodies of Japan	Shakuhachi : Yamamoto Hōzan
	Japan Revisited	Shakuhachi : Ono Mamoru
	Koto and Shakuhachi	Koto : Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto Shakuhachi : Tachibana Shigeo
	Koto Music of Japan
	Koto no Kyoshu Nihon no Merodi-shu	Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko Koto : Tsujimoto Chikatoyo Koto : Yonekawa Toshiko II Shakuhachi : Suginuma Sachio Koto : Yonekawa Megumi
	Koto no Miryoku - Disk 2	Koto : Yamauchi Kimiko
	Koto no Shirabe - In Memory of Miyagi Michio	Koto : Makise Kiyoko
	Memories of My Home	Shakuhachi : Riley Kōho Lee
	Moonlit Castle	Shakuhachi : John Singer
	Music of Japan	Shakuhachi : Miyata Kōhachirō
An arrangement for a shakuhachi and orchestra of a melody composed by Rentaro Taki (1879-1903). He is well known to Japanese people as an earliest composer of Western music in Japan. He composed many nice songs for primary and middle school pupils, and they are quite popular among Japanese still now. "Kojo no Tsuki" is one of them. Kojo is a ruined castle and tsuki is the moon. The poem for the original song describes the moonlight over the ruined castle and expresses the longing for the days when the castle was prospering.
	Musical Memories of Japan
	Nihon no Shirabe	Shakuhachi : Mitsuhashi Kifu Koto : Sawai Tadao
	Sankyoku Gassō Dai Zenshū vol. 24 　(三曲合奏大全集２４)	Shakuhachi : Nanba Chikuzan
	Shakuhachi - Japanese Traditional Music	Shakuhachi : Uemura Shozan
"Kojo no Tsuki" ("The Moon Over the Lake"), is a duet composed by Nakao Tozan in 1922 at his home during a late fall evening in Tokyo. It depicts the cool autumn air as it whips up small ripples on a lake, each of which reflects the moon. The latter half of the piece features a 3/8 rhythm which suggests the moonlight as it wavers on the waves. This piece was the first to utilize three-beat rhythm in shakuhachi music.
	Sound of Japan	Shakuhachi : Mitsuhashi Kifu
	Tozan Ryu - Shakuhachi Dai Zen Shu - Vol 1	Shakuhachi : Shimabara Hanzan
	Tozan Ryu - Shakuhachi Honkyoku	Shakuhachi : Uemura Shōzan
	Tozan Ryu Shakuhachi Honkyoku Shu - Vol 2	Shakuhachi : Hoshida Ichizan II
	View From Here, The	Shakuhachi : Peter Ross