History:

Hietsuki Bushi appears on the following albums

	Album	Artist
	Bamboo Spirit	Shakuhachi : Peter Ross
	Beyond Time And Space	Shakuhachi : Koga Masayuki
Barnyard grass pounding tune A general came to Miyazaki from Kyoto after the Heike Clan lost the Battle of Dannoura( I 185 A.D.). Later, when the new government attempted to capture him, he was forced to flee. A young woman works in the fields singing about her hopes for his return.
	Flower Dance - Japanese Folk Melodies
The sad melody of Hietsuki bushi stems from a folk song of Kumamoto in Kyushu. It is based upon the story of the Heike family, whose members hid themselves in the mountains after they were defeated in the Genji and Heike War. Poverty forced them to eat wild corn instead of rice. Heitsuki means "to thresh the corn with a wooden mallet"-the sound of which is simulated in the tsuzumi {small drum} accompaniment.
	Japanese Folk Songs
A laborer's song handed down at rice-growing districts since the olden days. Its main story is about the tragic love of young lovers born into rival families.
	Memories of My Home	Shakuhachi : Riley Kōho Lee
	Nihon Minyo - Shakuhachi Tokusen Shu - 2	Shakuhachi : Kikuchi Tansui
	Shakuhachi Min'yo - Furusato no Uta - Vol 1	Shakuhachi : Yashita Isamu
	Shakuhachi no Shirabe - Hietsuki Bushi	Shakuhachi : Miyata Kōhachirō
	Shakuhachi with Piano in Concert	Shakuhachi : Koga Masayuki
A song sung by peasant maidens to a sleeping child. They sing of their poverty and of the hopelessness of their lives.
	Shakuhachi/ Kaze no Tabi - Volume 4	Shakuhachi : Suzuki Jofū Shakuhachi : Yamashita Mufū Shakuhachi : Saeki Shōfū
	Space between thoughts - a journey east, The	Shakuhachi : Peter Ross
	Tokusen Shakuhachi Minyo	Shakuhachi : Kikuchi Tansui
	Yagishita - 2	Shakuhachi : Kikuchi Tansui