Japanese Masterpieces for the Koto (Full Album, HQ)

Someone asked for a higher quality version of this album, so I am reuploading it here. Used a Sony Walkman WM-FX290W, should be a little bit better.
"Another Lyrichord tape, this time from the 'Master Musicians of Ikuta-Ryu', no actual names. This one probably comes from the early to mid 70's.
Side 1:
1. 0:00 Sakura
2. 3:06 Soran-Bushi
3. 4:19 Kuroda-Bushi
4. 6:39 Niwa No Sanshu No Ki
5. 8:39 Utsukushiki Ten-Nen
Side 2:
1. 17:47 Banshu
2. 24:16 Kyo No Insho (A & B)
3. 32:03 Two Reikin Improvisations
"Koto music is divided into two distinct types. There is a kind which accompanies singing and another which is solely instrumental. The oldest known form of vocal koto music was called 'Kumiata', which was a group of short poems set to music to be sung in a given order. In the later koto music that developed from this, each poem was called a step or 'dan'. The term 'dan' is therefore basic to all discussions of koto music forms ('Ichidan', for example, means one step or poem; 'Midan', two steps. 'Rokudan' refers to six steps; 'Kudan', to nine.)
'Shirabemono' is the term for all strictly instrumental works written for the koto. "Rokudan" is a classic example of this form. There is reason to believe that this piece is of very ancient Chinese origin, although Yatsuhashi Kengyo, who began the Yatsuhashi school of popular koto music in Kyoto in the seventeenth century, is credited with this composition, as well as the other classics "Midare" and "Hachidan".
Not until the end of the seventeenth century, however, when Ikuta Kengyo founded a new style of koto music, was the instrument combined with the shamisen, and either kokyu or shakuhachi. This ensemble form, called 'sankyoku', "music for three" became, and still is, a most acceptable way of presenting koto music.
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, yet another koto teacher, Yamada Kengyo, borrowing from narrative shamisen music, founded a school and a style in which vocal expression to koto accompaniment was emphasized. The Yamada and Ikuta schools each possess their basic repertoires of standard pieces. Even in the nineteenth century they still tended to emphasize -- one, the vocal aspect, the other, the instrumental. And though both produce more of the instrumental types of music today, the distinction is still present in people's minds as they compare the two."
Discogs: www.discogs.com/master/638119..."

[@HitomiZuri]

You have no idea how happy I am :) I appreciate and grateful for this version. Thank you for uploading the album!!!

[@solCANIMEMBERCHIMfarquaat3rd]

I'm glad you like it! This was always one of my most favorite tapes and I could never find it on youtube, had to upload it just for historicity I guess, its hard to hear these sounds otherwise.

[@user-xy8es3rw4i]

とてもいい曲です！ありがとうございます。

[@hamag3655]

Thank you very much for uploading this. I bought this LP here in Buenos Aires many years ago but my LP-player is not working anymore. You give me the opportunity to listen to it again. Arigato gozai masu.

[@solCANIMEMBERCHIMfarquaat3rd]

Of course! Had it on cassette and couldn't find it anywhere else, I figured someone else would be in a situation like that eventually, and it really is a lovely album

[@janetwang8534]

So beautiful and peaceful. Thank you for sharing!

[@cliff987]

Thank you.

[@TheMerryMaryOne]

Oh this is wunderful! Just got here by chance. Can someone tell me what "the koto" means? Thank you🤗

[@solCANIMEMBERCHIMfarquaat3rd]

The koto is the national instrument of Japan, and it's what is being played throughout the whole tape: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koto_(instrument) Thanks for listening!

[@talb.1805]

24:41

[@talb.1805]

Kyo no insho

[@YeahBoi9880]

Can I sample theeese ????

[@solCANIMEMBERCHIMfarquaat3rd]

Not the owner, but KZbin is idiotic so if you sample the first part you might get claimed by this metal remix kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIi6hISjpp2Fq9E just so ya know (facepalm). No other claims than that so sample away!