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    the shakuhachi was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the fuke shakuhachi (普化尺八). A bamboo flute known as the kodai shakuhachi (古代尺八...
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    Komusō (redirect from Kinko shakuhachi)
    and rōnin) who were noted for wearing straw basket hats and playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute, nowadays called suizen ('Zen of blowing (the flute)'). During...
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    Shakuhachi musical notation is a traditional tablature-style method of transcribing shakuhachi music. A number of systems exist for notating shakuhachi...
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    same part of the bamboo plant is also used to produce the shakuhachi but, unlike the shakuhachi, the hotchiku's inside (bore) and outside surfaces are left...
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    No. 4 "Recollection of Reminiscence Beyond" (1994) "Coexistence" for shakuhachi and string orchestra (1994) Symphony No. 3 "Inner Communications" (1995)...
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  • perhaps in its most extreme form in his works for shakuhachi, collected on the 2007 CD Music for shakuhachi [see Discography]). His music shows an extraordinary...
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    music. Shakuhachi (尺八) music began in the Edo period. Buddhist monks played the shakuhachi as a substitute for a sutra. Sometimes the shakuhachi is played...
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    languages. Shakuhachi meets Pena is a maiden India-Japan musical collaboration, which is a fusion of the traditional musical instrument Shakuhachi of Japanese...
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  • The Sound of Zen is a 2002 solo shakuhachi album by Atsuya Okuda. The album contains recordings of six honkyoku, the music of Japanese Zen monks, played...
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    Brian Ritchie (category Shakuhachi players)
    playing, Ritchie is proficient at the shakuhachi, a Japanese bamboo flute. He acquired a Jun Shihan (shakuhachi teaching license) in March 2003 from James...
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  • honkyoku, a solo "original piece" of Japanese Buddhist origin for the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute. The title "Kokū" is often translated as "empty sky"....
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    The following is a list of notable shakuhachi and hotchiku players, arranged by surname. Araki Atsumu (Kodō IV) Araki Hanzaburō (Kodō II, Chikuō) Araki...
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  • Shakuhachi meets Pena is a musical composition and performance, which is a collaboration of the performances of the traditional Japanese musical instrument...
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  • koto and shakuhachi composed in 1929 by Michio Miyagi. It is Miyagi's best known piece and one of the most famous for the koto and shakuhachi instruments...
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  • Minoru Muraoka (category Shakuhachi players)
    Minoru, 1923—2 January 2014) was a Japanese shakuhachi player. He became well-known for using the shakuhachi to play jazz music, which was influential on...
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  • solo shakuhachi compositions) Sankyoku (ensemble compositions, for shakuhachi, koto and shamisen) Shinkyoku discography at the International Shakuhachi Society...
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  • This time the Gregorian chants were toned down tremendously, although Shakuhachi flutes and other traditional Enigma signatures remain. Only "Gravity of...
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    website, July 29, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2021. Deaver, Tom. "HOCHIKU vs. SHAKUHACHI". shikan.org. Archived from the original on 2019-09-07. Retrieved 2020-11-30...
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  • Coming, and sees him focusing on different types of flutes, including the shakuhachi and the svirel, as well as the clarinet. The album was recorded in Van...
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  • Rodrigo Rodríguez (musician) (category Shakuhachi players)
    Rodrigo Rodríguez (born 29 August 1978) is a Spanish shakuhachi player. Rodrigo Rodríguez was born in 1978 in Argentina, San Carlos de Bolivar. He moved...
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  • Kokū Nishimura (category Shakuhachi players)
    was a master shakuhachi player, teacher, and craftsman. Like his teacher, Kyochiku Tani, Nishimura became a komusō (a mendicant shakuhachi player). Nishimura...
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    which practiced a unique form of "blowing zen" (suizen) by playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Traditional martial arts, like Chinese martial arts, Japanese...
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    and bansuri; and end-blown flutes, such as the ney, xiao, kaval, danso, shakuhachi, Anasazi flute and quena. The player of a side-blown flute uses a hole...
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    shamisen, koto, and kokyū, but more recently the kokyū has been replaced by shakuhachi. Koto (musical instrument) Shakuhachi Shamisen Kokyū "Sankyoku". v t e...
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    suspicion. Disguises as a komusō, a mendicant monk known for playing the shakuhachi, were also effective, as the large "basket" hats traditionally worn by...
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    Turkish music and Mevlevi (Sufi) music. China has the xiao, Japan has the shakuhachi and Korea has the danso and tongso. People of the Andes play the quena...
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  • made of a bamboo called shinobue. The most popular of the fue is the shakuhachi. Fue are traditionally broken up into two basic categories – the transverse...
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  • mostly improvised by Scott, Shinichi Yuize (koto) and Hōzan Yamamoto (shakuhachi). The fourth track entitled "After the Snow, the Fragrance" has been sampled...
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    Masakazu Yoshizawa (category Shakuhachi players)
    musician, known for his mastery of the bamboo flute, specifically the shakuhachi. Yoshizawa also mastered several other traditional Japanese flutes, in...
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    Buddhism. A former samurai, he became a shakuhachi instructor and founded the Kinko-Ryu (ja) school of shakuhachi. Commissioned to travel around Japan to...
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