Album that links Japanese traditional music with European classical music, particuarly Chopin. Various Japanese music that was popular when Chopin was alive 200 years ago, the Edo period in Japan. The album starts with a Chopin Prelude and ends with a Chopin nocturne played on the koto. In between are tunes linked with nature such as rain, thunder, streams, waterfalls, insects, birds and frogs played on narimono percusssion, with styles incorporated from nagauta, gidayu and kabuki.
1. Prelude 2. Amaoto 3. Uchiwa Ame 4. Amaoto 5. Namioto - Namiuchigiwa 6. Namioto - Kawanami 7.Mizuoto <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Ogawa'/> 8. Takioto 9. Yukioto 10. Kazaoto 11. Mushi no Ne 12. Kotori 13. Kari 14. Crow 15. Uguisu [Japanese bush warbler] 16. Hototogisu [little cuckoo] 17. Niwatori <Actinic:Variable Name = 'hen'/> 18. Chidor <Actinic:Variable Name = 'plover'/> 19. Tobi <Actinic:Variable Name = 'kite'/> 20. Higurashi <Actinic:Variable Name = 'cicada'/> 21. Fukurou <Actinic:Variable Name = 'owl'/> 22. Kakkou <Actinic:Variable Name = 'cuckoo'/> 23.Kaeru <Actinic:Variable Name = 'flogs'/> 24. Akanbou <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Baby'/> 25. Akikaze no Kyoku 26. Nagauta Akiirodane 27. Gidayu - Yadoya no Dan from 'Ikiutsushi Asagao no Hanashi' 28. Ya no Ne [Nagauta Daisatsuma] 29. Echigojishi <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Nagauta'/> 30. Kanjincho <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Nagauta'/> 31. Shinobu Yoru Koi no Kusemono, Masakado <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Tokiwazu'/> 32. Hokushu Chitose Kotobuki, Hokushu <Actinic:Variable Name = 'Kiyomoto'/> 33. Dodoitsu 34. Shinbo Kodaiji 35. Suzugamori - Daimokuzuka no Ba 36. Mariuta <Actinic:Variable Name = 'sokyoku'/> 37. Kadozuke <Actinic:Variable Name = 'shakuhachi'/> 38. Ninba [ Edo no Matsuribayashi] 39.Noctune
