Known popularly as 'Tsuru no Sugomori (Nesting of a Crane)', it has the above formal title in Kinko-ryu. In arranging the original into his own composition, Kinko Kurosawa used special finger-techniques called takane and korone to express respectively the joy of the child when he leaves the nest, and the sorrow of the parent.Ĭomplete Collection of Honkyoku from the Kinko School - Vol 2 - Disc 4Ĭrux - Selected Solo Wind Works (1989-1992), The Sokaku Reibo appears on the following albumsĭepicting the Cranes in Their Nest - is one of the Thirty-Six Classics of Kinko Kurosawa, who was inspired by a musical piece of the Fuke priests that depicts the affection between cranes and their offspring. In addition, the player's technique can be enjoyed. This is one reason why 'Sokaku Reibo' is so popular even though it is relatively long. Moreover, a complicated special technique is used with variations. On the whole, the composition of this piece is dramatic and the climax comes with the separation of the young from the nest. This music uses the technique called 'koro-koro' and this is used often used because it imitates the voice and wing flapping of the cranes.

Some of the short phrases have the same form as Jiuta Sugomori 'Ji'. There is a specific tonguing technique in this piece which is quite remarkable. Throughout the entire piece a short motivational melody is repeated and pushing to a gradual build-up this melody changes little by little. 'Sokaku Reibo' describes the life of the cranes, from their birth and the time of their being raised by their parents to the flight of the young from the nest and the eventual death of the parent cranes.

It is most interesting that these two popular Honkyoku pieces describe the behavior of animals.

In the Kinko school, the piece 'Tsuru No Sugomori' is called 'Sokaku Reibo' and this piece is one of the most famous among the Kinko Ryu Honkyoku as is the piece 'Shika No Toneh' (The Distant Sound of Deer A Description of The Late Fall Mountain). This is a piece of genre Koten from the Kinko Ryû - 琴古流 School.

Cranes in the sky sheet music