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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.
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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 ...
James Nyoraku Schlefer (Japanese: ジェイムス 如楽 シュレファー), born 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, is a performer and teacher and composer of shakuhachi in New York City. He received the Dai-Shi-Han (Grand Master) certificate in 2001, one of only a handful of non-Japanese to receive this high-level award.
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, flutes are edge-blown aerophones. [1]
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 ...
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]