Fuan #40

In the picture, Chinese letters say Myoan, Fuan, which means

this player is Myoan #40 instructor Yoshimura Fuan

Taro Matsumoto at Kodaiji Temple

video at

http://vimeo.com/66078994

Blue Komuso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V04tWKrHUQ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iIR0Ydj5PU

old soul, young heart for eternity

The Black Resin Jinashi Shakuhachi

Overlooking his backyard, Sensei Horiuchi tries out the world's first Black Resin Jinashi Shakuhachi. He remarked this jinashi plays very well, and will not fluctuate in tone with temperature variations as bamboo would.  

Many thanks to maker Jon Kypros for this wonderful work!

The Black Resin Plastic Jinashi Shakuhachi alongside the Tominomori Kyozan Taizan-ha Master style Bamboo Shakuhachi, painted with Urushi Laquer.

 

The original nodes are exactly reproduced from the bamboo mold. Excellent craftsmanship by Shakuhachi Maker Jon Kypros. With wide dynamic tonal range and volume, a very interesting instrument on which to dwell and appreciate.  

Polyurethane resin is also used in the manufacture of rollercoaster and skateboard wheels!

Sensei Morimasa Horiuchi asks whether 3-D printing will be the next advance in master shakuhachi reproduction?

The molds for the Jon Kypros "Bell" shakuhachi.

Edo Shakuhachi w/ Small Holes

Black one, some poem is written and last two letter of

Kanji,say " ukigumo" means floating clouds.

47 Ronin

Tokyo

    I heard the unblown flute
In the deep tree-shades
    Of the Temple of Suma.
                                                              Basho
   Basho visited Sumadera in the summer, and under the shades of the old pine-trees there, saw the flute that Atsumori (1169-1184) used to play in the castle before his death.
At the battle of Ichi-no-tani, when the Taira were defeated, Atsumori, then seventeen years old, was seized by Kumagai Naozane, d. 1208.  In spite of the fact that Atsumori reminded him of his son Kojiro, he beheaded him, and sent the flute Atsumori carried to his father, Tsunemori.  He spent the rest of his life at Kurodani praying for Atsumori's soul.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, shakuhachi, play on;
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared,
Sound to the soul honkyoku of no tone.

1890 Komuso

Iwata Seien Painting

Komuso early Showa Period?

Picture of an Actor, a Shakuhachi and an Inro

Utagawa, Toyokuni (1769-1825), Japanese

Hakuin Drawings of Puhua and Ikkyu

Puhua

Ikkyu

Interstellar Komuso

chinese poem titled "zan-getsu"

 

means moon-fading-out.  

and last phrase "suidan myoan " 

means play myoan shakuhachi.

Yoshimura Soshin Fuan

Five letters of the scroll, from the top down pronounced

Rei-inn-choku-ko-kon.  
1st letter means spiritual,
2nd sound,
 3rd  immediately,
4th old,
5th now.  

This scroll was written at Tofuku-ji  temple,
 by the top priest named Yasuda Tenzan.

Roan=Kyochiku Zenji