Original Music: Amagisan Doro
Original Music: Amagisan Doro
"Amagisan" is the name of the highest peak on Japan's Izu Penninsula, which lies between the Pacific Ocean and Suruga Bay just south of Mt. Fuji. "San", written 山 and also pronounced "yama", means "mountain". And the name Amagi is written with two characters, 天城, which mean "sky" or "heaven" and "castle".
"Amagisan Doro" means "Amagi Mountain Road" and was written to commemorate the many happy hours I spent hiking in the mountains in the Amagi region during my residence in Japan. It is peaceful and a bit wistful, and features sounds evocative of the shakuhachi, Japan's traditional wooden pipe, and the koto, a wooden harp-like instrument whose strings are plucked.
‘Amagisan Doro’ Audio Previews
These audio previews are in compressed MP3 format. Your digital download of the complete track is in a high-quality audio format called ‘Audio Interchange File Format’, playable on many media players including Microsoft Windows Media Player (Windows), Apple Music and Apple QuickTime Player (both bundled with macOS), and VideoLAN VLC media player (multiplatform).
A video comprised of imagery I captured during many pleasant walks in the mountains of the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. ‘Amagisan Doro’ is the soundtrack.
The cover image for this track is the view looking out from the old Amagi Tunnel, way up in the mountainous spine of the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. This area is the location of the famous Japanese short story, ‘Dancing Girl of Izu’ [伊豆の踊り子] by Yasunari Kawabata, published in 1926. Go here for more images from this area, including many along the Odoriko Trail commemorating the story.