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A shakuhachi (Japanese: 尺八, pronounced [ɕakɯhat͡ɕi]) is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. 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).
Used in Japanese music seeming to have a Chinese origin. Its sound is said to represent the ascension of dragons. Nohkan: Transverse 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 ...
Noh (能) or nōgaku (能楽) music is a type of theatrical music used in Noh theatre. Noh music is played by an instrumental ensemble called hayashi-kata (囃子方).The instruments used are the taiko (太鼓) stick drum, a large hourglass-shaped drum called the ōtsuzumi (大鼓), a smaller hourglass-shaped drum called the kotsuzumi (小鼓), and a bamboo flute called the nohkan (能管).
The komabue (高麗笛) ("Koma flute") is a transverse bamboo flute, a fue that is used in traditional Japanese court music. Construction
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 ]
A lacquered nohkan. The Nohkan (能 管) is a high pitched, Japanese transverse bamboo flute, or fue ().It is commonly used in traditional Imperial Noh and Kabuki theatre. The nohkan flute was created by Kan'ami and his son Zeami in the 15th century, during the time when the two were transforming the Noh theatre forms Dengaku and Sarugaku.
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)
Natural utaguchi without inlay. The hotchiku (法竹 (ほっちく), "bamboo of [the] dharma"; lit. ' dharma bamboo '), sometimes romanized as hocchiku or hochiku, is a Japanese aerophone, an end-blown bamboo flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo. [1]