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| | Recording: Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky, A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Depicting the Cranes in Their Nest - is one of the Thirty-Six Classics of Kinko Kurosawa, who was inspired by a musical piece of the Fuke priests that depicts the affection between cranes and their offspring. |
 | | Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky - of the Kinko school, is one of the three oldest pieces, known as the koden-sankyoku, of the fuke shakuhachi tradition. |
 | | Koku-Reibo is said to have been originally composed by a Zen priest named Kyochiku when he attained enlightenment in a dream; in the Fuke shakuhachi, it is called simply Koku, The Empty Sky, portraying a happy, peaceful feeling of awakening. |
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