Crimson Dusk on the Reed Marsh 🌙 Japanese Sleep Music | Shakuhachi & Koto for Deep Sleep #17

Crimson Dusk on the Reed Marsh. One hour of gentle Japanese soundscapes — shakuhachi, koto, and soft ambient tones — for deep sleep, meditation, and quiet nights. 🌙 Tonight's scene: 葦原の沼に紅の夕焼けが満ちる・表題曲. A note on this scene: Reeds grow so thick across Japan's wet lowlands that the islands' oldest name for themselves was Toyoashihara, the land of abundant reed plains; the Man'yo poets watched the evening wind cross them just as it crosses them now. A crimson dusk, and the sixteenth-night moon, izayoi, rises a little late, as if it hesitates. 00:00:00 Crimson Dusk on the Reed Marsh 00:03:08 Embers Fading Over the Reeds 00:06:26 Sixteen-Night Moon Breaking Crimson 00:09:51 Thickets of Reed in Fading Light 00:13:02 Channels Through the Marsh 00:15:56 One Ember Low on the Horizon 00:19:44 Stillness Over the Darkened Marsh 00:23:02 Sixteen-Night Moon Mirrored Whole 00:31:01 Night Sinks Into the Silent Reeds 00:34:06 Dawn Touches the Marsh's Edge 00:37:19 Crimson Dusk on the Reed Marsh 00:40:27 Embers Fading Over the Reeds 00:43:45 Sixteen-Night Moon Breaking Crimson 00:47:10 Thickets of Reed in Fading Light 00:50:21 Channels Through the Marsh 00:53:15 One Ember Low on the Horizon 00:57:03 Stillness Over the Darkened Marsh 01:00:22 Sixteen-Night Moon Mirrored Whole 01:08:20 Night Sinks Into the Silent Reeds 01:11:25 Dawn Touches the Marsh's Edge (total 74m38s) 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.