谷間の水車

Japan / Contemporary music for Japanese instruments

The water mill in the valley

An early recording by Miyagi Michio, the blind koto player who led the shin-nihon ongaku (new Japanese music) movement of the 1920s, with his close partner, the shakuhachi player Yoshida Seifū. Recorded October 1924.

Performer
Miyagi Michio (koto), Yoshida Seifū (shakuhachi)
Instruments
Koto 箏, Shakuhachi 尺八
Era
Taishō
Recorded
1924
Length
3:48
Licence
Public domain · National Diet Library, Historical Recordings Collection (国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション「歴史的音源」)Nipponophone 15567, issued March 1925 (recorded October 1924); public domain in the US (published 1925 or earlier). Marked public domain and internet-public by the National Diet Library.
Source
National Diet Library (Rekion)

In the collection

  1. 風の歌Kaze no uta — Song of the WindRobin Eve (shakuhachi), Yuu Ishii (koto) · Shakuhachi, Koto10:36
  2. 秋の調(一)Aki no shirabe (1/4) — Autumn melody, part 1 of 4Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyōko (koto), Yoshida Seifū (shakuhachi) · Koto, Shakuhachi · 19252:13
  3. 秋の調(二)Aki no shirabe (2/4) — Autumn melody, part 2 of 4Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyōko (koto), Yoshida Seifū (shakuhachi) · Koto, Shakuhachi · 19253:26
  4. 秋の調(三)Aki no shirabe (3/4) — Autumn melody, part 3 of 4Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyōko (koto), Yoshida Seifū (shakuhachi) · Koto, Shakuhachi · 19253:35
  5. 秋の調(四)Aki no shirabe (4/4) — Autumn melody, part 4 of 4Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyōko (koto), Yoshida Seifū (shakuhachi) · Koto, Shakuhachi · 19253:25