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Kristjaan ask that we listen and be inspired to write
This song is actually an Okinawan Folk Song which is known as Min'yo always depicting either sadness, loss of loved ones, loss of hope, grievances, or finding new hope.


you are far away
Mt Fuji yet your presence -
a song on my lips
© gillena cox 2018


This one is Japanese court music, also a kind of folk music, but for the high society so to speak


lofty notes -
ladies in the palace wear
their best kimonos
© gillena cox 2018


Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
#1493 Okinawa ... the music of Southern Japan

AND

Carpe Diem
#1494 Gagaku, the traditional music of the Japanese Court


Revisit
9 August 2017
9 August 2016
9 August 2015