Relaxing Japanese Music for Study & Reading | Autumn Village 秋の山里 | Koto & Shakuhachi

Quiet Japanese background music for studying, reading, or a calm evening: koto, shakuhachi and shinobue, with a little fox named Hotaru walking through an autumn village in Japan. From red leaves in the afternoon, to a moonlit night, to a frosty golden dawn. TRACKLIST 0:00 Maple Afternoon (秋の午後) 5:55 The Sound of Falling Leaves (落ちる葉の音) 11:51 Evening Wind in the Mountains (山の夕風) 17:46 Harvest Moon (名月の夜) 23:42 Sunrise over the Autumn Mountains (秋山の朝日) 🦊 ABOUT HOTARU Hotaru is a little fox I designed myself. He travels across Japan through the seasons in my 2027 wall calendar (12 painted scenes, from snowy Otaru to the autumn leaves of Nikko), available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/jp/listing/45891... 📚 IF YOU ARE LEARNING JAPANESE I also write easy Japanese short stories for learners (JLPT N5–N4, with furigana, vocabulary and culture notes). They are available on Amazon in Kindle and Paperback: Legends of Japan: Eight Tales in Easy Japanese (classic Japanese legends, retold simply) Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLXHHPP8 Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLX5Q8FL Stories Every Japanese Person Knows (eight well-known anecdotes you can bring up when talking with Japanese people) Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMNHSD6D Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMNB5B6L Japanese Words You Already Know: Eight Stories in Easy Japanese (stories built around Japanese words that English already uses) Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNKJ9JGZ Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNGYQKVL Faces of Japan's Banknotes: Eight Lives in Easy Japanese (the lives of the people on Japan's banknotes) Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNKL9KNW Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNH4DKYL ✍️ AND IF YOU WANT TO WRITE BY HAND Handwriting workbooks (Paperback): Tegaki no Tenarai: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HLX5NN9N Tegaki no Tenarai 2: Write Real Japanese by Hand (kanji practice for forms, notes, postcards and diary entries): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMN28353 ABOUT THIS VIDEO The music was created with Suno AI (paid plan) and selected and arranged by me. The illustrations and animation are AI-generated, based on my own original character design (Hotaru). The scenes are imagined, not real places. Hotaru's Quiet Journey: quiet Japanese music, season by season. If you enjoy this, please subscribe. Tell me in the comments what scene you would like next: snow, cherry blossoms, or a summer lantern festival. #JapaneseMusic #StudyMusic #AutumnMusic #Koto #Shakuhachi #作業用BGM #紅葉 #和風BGM #SamuraiKanbe