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        EVERYTHING ABOUT THE GREAT JAPANESE SHAKUHACHI BAMBOO FLUTE

         LAST UPDATED MAY 6, 2004      

I'M just a dumb new shakuhachi fan - teaching myself how to play this amazing instrument of all instruments!

AND - hopefully - teaching myself how to build a really great shakuhachi or two or three or four or . . . !

BUT this site has something for everyone who loves the sound of peace.

JUST click on any of the links on the left here, and enjoy the ride!

Roan.  The first komuso.

In honor of his shakuhachi (or hitoyogiri), he called himself "Fuketsu dosha," the "Person of the Way of the Wind and Holes."   (I'm changing my name next week!)

He also was the founder of the komuso temple in Kyoto, Myoanji or Meianji, and the same person also known as Kyochiku Zenji.

My hero!

This painting of Roan is on a scroll done by a friend of Roan's, Khokei or Kei Shoki, a priest at the temple Kenchoji, during the Muromachi period, and it is dated 1477.

 The unsurpassed majesty and heraldry and infinite simplicity of Roan and the bamboo shakuhachi!

This is why they are my choice!

This is my very favorite possession 
in all the world!

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This is my new Hane Yuu, created by Shutendouji niplo-kn@xb3.so-net.ne.jp.
My name is in gold Japanese kanji on the back! And YOU can have one of these custom made
for only 20000 yen or $190!

I've already ordered a second one!

See www.shakuhachi.ws/hanayuu.htm

And here is my happy little collection of flutes.  How do you like the huge clear PVC shakuhachi on the top (I haven't cut in the finger holes yet)?  Three of the flutes are transverse, side-blown, as you can see.  Plus there's the pan flute . . . .

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AND THIS IS THE REAL ME, sitting in my back yard, in north central Florida, casting an ancient Japanese magic shakuhachi spell 
over the primordial and enchanting 
SUWANNEE RIVER. 

  This is enlightenment, dear heart!

 This is shakuhachi living!