I have been meaning of working on this track based on the short story by a friend. As this is based on a traditional Japanese folk story, I experimented with taikos, shamisen and flutes. My conclusion for now is that I need to listen to more Shamisen based music to get the scales and feeling right. Now i end up programming pentatonic scales on shamisen, which is all wrong. :)

Done in FL studio, using FLEX, lots of samples from Splice and a shamisen soundfont.

We're halfway through the year! Let's keep on composing!