Geschichte (John Singer):

Ginryu Koku spielt auf den folgenden Alben

	Album	Künstler
	Complete Collection of Honkyoku from the Kinko School - Vol 2 - Disc 3	Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
	Kinko Ryu Honkyoku - 7	Shakuhachi : Aoki Reibo II
	Kinko Ryū Shakuhachi Koten Honkyoku	Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō II
	Music of the Shakuhachi	Shakuhachi : Ralph Samuelson
Koku (Empty Sky) is one of the profoundly spiritual pieces of the shakuhachi tradition and one of a core group of three sacred pieces. It is said to have been given by the Buddha to the monk Kochiku (13th century) in a dream. Ginryu Koku is the special version of Koku which Kinko Kurosawa colleted from a priest named Ginryu.
	Shakuhachi no Shinzui-Shakuhachi Honkyoku - 09	Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
	Yamaguchi Gorō - Kinko-ryū Shakuhachi Honkyoku Zenshū 8	Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō Shakuhachi : Matsumura Hōmei
	Zen Music - VI	Shakuhachi : Nōtomi Judō I Shakuhachi : Yamaguchi Gorō
This is an arrangement of 'Koku', one of the oldest three pieces in Fuke sect shakuhachi. It was used as a ceremonial music. The original composition was being transmitted a Ichigetsu-ji Temple in Musashi. A man called Ginryu is said to have arranged it into the form as heard in this recording and taught it to Kinko Kurosawa (1710-1771). Some people say that this piece depicts the flight of crying ryu, a fictitious, felicitous animal venerated in China and Japan. There is a piece, of which title resembles to this: 'Ryugin Koku'. But it is a different piece, in which 'ryugin' simply denotes a tonal scale, shimomu-cho. 'Ginryu Koku' belongs to the Seventeen Ura Pieces in the repertoire of Kinko-ryu Honkyoku. Kaede (counterpart) and solo as performed by Judo Notomi is to be heard from the left and Honte (principal part) by Goro Yamaguchi from the right.