Tsuru no Sugomori (Kinko-ryu)

鶴の巣籠

[Genre]	Honkyoku
[Also Known As]	The Nesting of Cranes

History:

One of the many existing variants on Sokaku Reibo/Tsuru no Sugomori, the Kinko-ryu version is most often encountered performed (and notated) as a duet, much like its programmatic cousin, Shika no Tone, and it's very popular in this form, with many recordings available. Some Kinko-ryu schools, however, treat it as a separate piece from Sokaku Reibo, and teach and perform it as both a duet and solo piece. Like Sokaku Reibo, it shares melodic material and the same extended techniques of koro-koro, tamane, multiphonics, etc. The program material is identical, both pieces describing the life-cycle of a family of nesting cranes, with similar sections depicting building the nest, rearing their young, watching them take flight, eventually leaving the nest, with the parent cranes being alone again to live out the remainder of their lives together. The extended techniques used in the piece create an impression of the flapping of wings and the calls of the cranes.

Tsuru no Sugomori (Kinko-ryu) appears on the following albums

	Album	Artist
	Nihon no Hibiki - Shakuhachi/ Tsuru no Sugomori - Shika no Tōne	Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
	The Flower - Yoko Hiraoka and David Wheeler	Shakuhachi : David Kansuke Wheeler