Chords for Jake Shimabukuro plays "Sakura, Sakura"

_ _ _ _ _ _ Now I could not go through the night without playing one of my favorite
Japanese traditional folk [A#] tunes.
_ [E] The first time I [F] heard this song it was
played on a [F#] traditional instrument known [E] as the koto _ and I have loved this
[D#] instrument ever since that first meeting and first encounter.
[F#] [C] You know the koto
is a 13 string [E] Japanese instrument that sits on the floor and you play it with
these finger picks that make you look like Freddy Krueger, you know, and it's it
has the most amazing sound, you know, it's very haunting and very _ Japanese.
_ So I'd
like to share this song with you.
This [F] is an arrangement that I came up with a few
years ago [F] and it was kind of my attempt at transforming my little four string
[E] Hawaiian ukulele into a 13 string Japanese koto. _
So here's a song entitled
[F#] Sakura Sakura that's about the annual cherry blossom [N] season. _ _
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_ _ _ It's a koto-like [G] arrangement.
_ _ Please enjoy _ _ Shimabukuro.
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Sakura Sakura deshite arigatou. _ _ _
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