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Recordings featuring traditional Japanese instruments.

Album CoverMedia TitleMedia TypeArtistMedia LabelCatalog NumberDateSynopsis
Distant Cry of Deer, The Distant Cry of Deer, The AC Koga Masayuki Fortuna Records
1981 Honkyoku and bass shakuhachi improvisations.
Duos for Shakuhachi and Koto Duos for Shakuhachi and Koto LP Yokoyama Katsuya RCA RCL-8041 1981
East Meets East Vol 1 East Meets East Vol 1 AC Koga Masayuki Guru Ram Das Productions GRD 109 1981 With Rahul Sariputra on Sitar and Bhushan Sapori and Kulwant Singh on Tabla Duet
Ichiro Seki Ichiro Seki LP Seki Ichirō

1981
Minyo no Sekai Minyo no Sekai LP Yashita Isamu Sony 25AG 782 1981
Mixed Bag Mixed Bag CD Neptune, John Kaizan Toshiba EMI TEC-2010 1981
Shogun Shogun CD Neptune, John Kaizan Toshiba EMI TEC-2024 1981 Original compositions in a jazz/rock idiom.
The Shakuhachi - Digital Transcendence Sound The Shakuhachi - Digital Transcendence Sound LP Yamamoto Hōzan Victor Records SGS-25 1981 Ten western popular songs featuring shakuhachi backed by piano, bass, guitar, and drums. With Yamamoto Hōzan and "Shakuhachi 1979" (Taizan Kawamura, Ishigaki Seizan, Sakai Suizan, Nomura Hōzan, and Nanba Chikuzan).
West of Somewhere West of Somewhere CD Neptune, John Kaizan Toshiba EMI TEC-2006 1981

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