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Players of the Japanese shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute), as well as the closely related unlacquered instruments called hocchiku and kyotaku. Pages in category "Shakuhachi players" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Masakazu Yoshizawa (吉沢 政和, September 10, 1950 – October 24, 2007) was a Japanese American flutist and musician, known for his mastery of the bamboo flute, specifically the shakuhachi. Yoshizawa also mastered several other traditional Japanese flutes, in addition to other Japanese and Western musical instruments. [1]
The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the shakuhachi was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the fuke shakuhachi (普化尺八). [1] [2] A bamboo flute known as the kodai shakuhachi (古代尺八, ancient shakuhachi) or gagaku shakuhachi (雅楽尺八) was derived from the Chinese xiao in the Nara period and died out in the ...
4 Japanese. 5 Native American. 6 Other traditional / Folk. 7 Jazz / New Age. 8 Rock / Pop. 9 References. 10 External links. ... This is a list of notable flute ...
The playing of honkyoku on the shakuhachi in return for alms is known today as suizen, ('Zen of blowing (the flute)'), and interpreted as a form of dhyana, "meditation"). [24] According to Deeg, the image of "shakuhachi-Zen" as a spiritual practice is reinforced by western shakuhachi-players, giving it spiritual connotations it never had in ...
A flute used in the Noh theatre and hayashi ensembles. Shinobue: Transverse Also called the bamboo flute, it is used for nagauta, the background music used in kabuki theatre. Kagurabue: Transverse This fue is used in a type of Japanese music called mikagura. At 45.5 centimetres (17.9 in) long, it is the longest fue. Minteki (also known as the ...
Ron Korb's Asian Flute Gallery (features description and drawing of the Shinobue and other Japanese flutes); Syoji Yamaguchi's web site on Japanese transverse flutes Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine (features articles on making and playing of the Shinobue and other Japanese transverse flutes: yokobue or fue)
Shakuhachi – vertical bamboo flute used for Zen meditation; Shinobue – transverse folk bamboo flute; Tsuchibue (土笛 (つちぶえ), lit. ' earthen flute ') – globular flute made from clay; Bow flute (弓笛) – a flute developed by Ishida Nehito with bow hair on it to accompany the kokyū [1]