The International Shakuhachi Society

Magouta

This is a piece of genre Min'yo from the Min'yo School.

Magouta appears on the following albums

	Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
	Flower Dance - Japanese Folk Melodies
This is a traveler's folk song. The mago, horse keepers at a junction between one hill and the next, used to entertain their passengers by singing mago uta to the accompaniment of the horse bells.

The International Shakuhachi Society - 2018