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Katsukawa Shunshô 1775
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Katsukawa Shunshô 1788
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Katsukawa Shunshô c. 1780
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Katsushika Hokusai 1796
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Suzuki Harunobu 1768
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Kitagawa Utamaro c. 1800
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
18th Century Komuso Illustrations
Friday, January 13, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Shakuhachi like Golf
My Sensei
Mori-san and I went golfing after a recent lesson under a beautiful blue autumn sky.
It reminded me a few years ago, Michael
Chikuzen Gould once remarked outside a golf course that shakuhachi
playing is a lot like golf; keeping different sized clubs in bags, with concerns of stance, form, grip, a relaxed but focused technique, the holes...
(a zen-like ichion
jobutsu hole-in-one approach)
Monday, November 21, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Old Meiji 1.9 Gold Root Shakuhachi
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When I saw this distinctive flute on Jeff Cairn's beautifully designed Windwheel website, I recommemended it to my student Ken. It turned out to be a very nice instrument well-suited for the Taizan-ha repetoire.
A photo of the Meiji gold root 1.9 C# alongside my main 1.85 wide bore C# shakuhachi, coincidentally bought from the same Ebay seller in Japan who sold the Edo instrument that Perry photographed below alongside the gold root. Small world, shakuhachi.
         
Ken travelled to New York to meet with Perry Yung, and commissioned Perry to repair some slight cracks to the exterior of the instrument.
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Perry shot these photos of the gold root 1.9 alongside a Seikado modern shakuhachi and an older Edo 1.8 in the shop at the same time for an utaguchi repair.
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Ken enjoying the sound of my Edo period 1.7 shakuhachi.
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