Night Work in the Paper Village 🎐 Japanese Sleep Music | Shakuhachi Flute for Deep Sleep #53

Night Work in the Paper Village. One hour of gentle Japanese soundscapes — shakuhachi, koto, and soft ambient tones — for deep sleep, meditation, and quiet nights. 🎐 Tonight's scene: 和紙の里の夜なべ・表題曲. A note on this scene: Washi is made from the inner bark of the paper mulberry, kozo. The sheet-forming itself is cold-water work; the evenings before it belong to stripping and softening the bark by lamplight. 00:00:00 Night Work in the Paper Village 00:03:13 Bark Softening in Cold Water 00:11:11 A Thin Moon Over the Eaves 00:14:16 Hands That Know the Fibre 00:17:29 Steam From the Boiling Vat 00:25:28 Lantern at the Workshop Door 00:28:26 The Vat Left Still Until Morning 00:31:26 Sheets Hung the Length of the Room 00:38:38 The Last Lamp Turned Down 00:41:56 Paper White Before Sunrise 00:44:43 Night Work in the Paper Village 00:47:56 Bark Softening in Cold Water 00:55:55 A Thin Moon Over the Eaves 00:58:59 Hands That Know the Fibre 01:02:13 Steam From the Boiling Vat 01:10:12 Lantern at the Workshop Door 01:13:10 The Vat Left Still Until Morning 01:16:09 Sheets Hung the Length of the Room 01:23:22 The Last Lamp Turned Down 01:26:39 Paper White Before Sunrise (total 89m27s) Oborozuki（朧月）— "the hazy moon" of old Japanese poetry, the moon you see just before falling asleep. New quiet nights follow the Japanese calendar: phases of the moon, the 24 sekki, and still places across Japan.