KAKASHI — 案山子 | Traditional Japanese Music for Autumn Evenings — Focus, Study & Sleep

Welcome to Murasaki Sounds. Murasaki is the colour you get between indigo and vermilion — and the hour you get between day and night. Everything on this channel lives in that in-between. KAKASHI (案山子) is the scarecrow. The rice is in, the field is cut, and it is still standing there with nothing left to guard. 案山子立つ 守るものなき 田の真中 The scarecrow stands — nothing left to guard in the middle of the field ────────── A cut paddy field at dusk. Low mist over the stubble, long shadows, a crow going round once, village lights coming on in the distance. It is the kind of field you pass in Asuka in Nara after the harvest, when everyone has gone home and one figure is still out there. Shakuhachi, koto and shamisen. Very few notes, and long silences between them — because in Japanese music the space between two sounds is called MA, and it is not an absence. It is the other half of the music. Use this sound for: Deep Focus, Studying, Reading, Autumn Evenings, Calming Down, Sleep. 🎵 Tracklist & Chapters 00:00 — Alone in the Cut Field 03:23 — The Harvest Is In 06:35 — Straw Hat Old Cloth 09:43 — Long Shadows at Dusk 12:51 — The Field Has Gone Quiet 16:01 — Nothing Left to Guard 19:22 — Stubble and Low Mist 22:39 — A Crow Circles Once 26:18 — Standing Through the Evening 29:51 — Gold Light on the Paddies 33:02 — The Village Lights Come On 36:24 — Autumn Winds Down 39:40 — Still Here After Everyone Left 42:56 — The Last Warm Light 46:24 — A Field Waiting for Winter (The set repeats from here — three times in all.) ────────── No ads in the middle. Original music, composed for this channel. A new Japanese scene, whenever the light is right. ⛩ Still here after everyone left. Subscribe to Murasaki Sounds for more quiet hours in Japan.