Myoan Shakuhachi

   The house my teacher took lessons in the 1960s.

By  Kurahashi Yōdō I (1909-1980) A shakuhachi is a single length of bamboo. We often refer to it simply by the word “bamboo”—which consists ...

15 years ago a schematic was posted of the large main shakuhachi of Kobayashi Jido Shizan 小林 紫山 d. 1934 Recently, a bamboo fitting those dim...

  This essay Hitori Mondo by Hisamatrsu Fuyô was written in the 6th year of Bunsei (1823). It was transmitted as a copy written by Yoshida I...

 Hitori Kotoba By Hisamatsu Fûyô Hisamatsu Masagorô (ca. 1790-1845), named Fûyô, was a fourth-generation successor of Kurosawa Kinko  1 and...

  Kaisei Hôgo by Hisamatsu Fûyô in the year 1838. Authentic mind erects no barriers between past and present. Inauthentic mind separates eve...

  The Hitori Mondo of Hisamatsu Fuyo                   The Self-interrogation of Heart (1823)     No picture or grave of Hisamatsu Fūyō (179...