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Shakuhachi, Ai and Robots v2

Shakuhachi Kyudo -The breath and the arrow prt 2

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Takuhatsu day..

Sakura Takuhatsu 2026!

Breath and the note

Wu standing

Zhan Zhuang for Honkyoku Phrases: Standing Still So the Music Can Move Honkyoku is a strange thing to call music. The classical solo pieces of the shakuhachi tradition, many rooted in the old Fuke Zen world, aren’t really compositions in the way a concert hall would understand the word. They’re more like weather. “Kyorei,” “Hifumi Hachigaeshi,” pieces like these don’t want to be performed so…

Shakuhachi, Internal Training, and Takuhatsu in the Modern World

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White Robes, Black Robes…

Akimasta Omedetou 2026

And so it begins…New Year’s Eve I followed the same routine as in past years. A couple of days before the year-end, house cleaning. In the States, it is spring cleaning; here, it is New Year Cleaning. I did my share, threw out stuff, washing, and dusting places unseen, behind, on top of…etc. My studio is the most ordeal. Moving instruments, weapons, knick-knacks. Then finally done. Whew… New…

Shakuhachi as Incense Made Audible

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