| Album Cover | Media Title | Media Type | Artist | Media Label | Catalog Number | Date | Synopsis |
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Distant Cry of Deer, The | AC | Koga Masayuki | Fortuna Records | 1981 | Honkyoku and bass shakuhachi improvisations. | |
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Duos for Shakuhachi and Koto | LP | Yokoyama Katsuya | RCA | RCL-8041 | 1981 | |
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East Meets East Vol 1 | AC | Koga Masayuki | Guru Ram Das Productions | GRD 109 | 1981 | With Rahul Sariputra on Sitar and Bhushan Sapori and Kulwant Singh on Tabla Duet |
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Ichiro Seki | LP | Seki Ichirō | 1981 | |||
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Minyo no Sekai | LP | Yashita Isamu | Sony | 25AG 782 | 1981 | |
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Mixed Bag | CD | Neptune, John Kaizan | Toshiba EMI | TEC-2010 | 1981 | |
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Shin Zarashi (Koto Meikyoku no Shirabe vol.4) | LP | Nakanoshima Kin'ichi | Victor | VFC-6305 | 1981 | Four classic ensemble pieces. |
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Shogun | CD | Neptune, John Kaizan | Toshiba EMI | TEC-2024 | 1981 | Original compositions in a jazz/rock idiom. |
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The Shakuhachi - Digital Transcendence Sound | LP | Yamamoto Hōzan | Victor Records | SGS-25 | 1981 | Ten western popular songs featuring shakuhachi backed by piano, bass, guitar, and drums. With Yamamoto Hōzan and "Shakuhachi 1979" (Taizan Kawamura, Ishigaki Seizan, Sakai Suizan, Nomura Hōzan, and Nanba Chikuzan). |
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West of Somewhere | CD | Neptune, John Kaizan | Toshiba EMI | TEC-2006 | 1981 | |
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Yachiyo Jishi (Koto Meikyoku no Shirabe vol. 5) | LP | Nakanoshima Kin'ichi | Victor | VFC-6306 | 1981 | Four classic ensemble pieces. |
11 Recordings