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Chikurin
Tenkai CD, 1997
   
 
Song Title: Chikurin
   
Date Composed: 1997
Composer: Kiyoshi Nagata
Arrangement: Kiyoshi Nagata
Premiere Performance: Tenkai Recording
   

In this piece, a variety of of wooden instruments such as hyoshigi, settaku, mokugyo, hyotan and shinobue, are employed to create the impression of a bamboo grove. These sounds are accentuated by the miya daiko, chappa, clay whistle as well as a playful solo on two uchiwa daiko.

This song was featured as the theme song for the National Film Board of Canada short film Shiwa Shinzan by Reiko Loader.