Haru no Umi

Haru no Umi (春の海, The Sea in Spring) is a Meiji shinkyoku piece for koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi. It is Miyagi's best known piece and one of the most famous for the koto and shakuhachi instruments.

Miyagi composed the music from his childhood image of the sea of Tomonoura that he saw before he lost his eyesight.

At one stage the accompaniment has a repeated rhythmic motif (♬|♪♬♪♬|♪♪-) that bears some resemblance to a part of Septet en mi bémol majeur by Saint-Saëns (1881), but it is not known if Saint-Saëns influenced Miyagi.

See also

• Tomonoura
• Seto Inland Sea

References

• "Haru no Umi" at The International Shakuhachi Society

External links

• Audio performance clip at www.echo.ucla.edu/...