Shakuhachi

Fuke Shakuhachi Research Pages

Torsten Olafsson • Denmark • www.torstenolafsson.dk

 



Selected research
   news & literature


Kaidō honsoku
Isshi's letter
Rakuami's poem

Quotations & pictures:
 •  India

 •  China 1 •
          6000 B.C.-A.D. 500

 •  China 2 • A.D. 500 ...
 •  Japan 1 •   600-1233
 •  Japan 2 • 1233-1477
 •  Japan 3 • 1477-1560
 •  Japan 4 • 1560-1614
 •  Japan 5 • 1614-1664
 •  Japan 6 -•1664-1767
 •  Japan 7 • 1767-1883
 •  Japan 8 • 1883 ...
 •  The West / Literature

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Links

A list like this can never be absolutely complete. Do visit the websites shown below to find more interesting shakuhachi websites around the world.

"KAIDŌ HONSOKU"

Kaidō Honsoku cover, front

Publisher of the thesis with introductory essay
Torsten Olafsson: "Kaidō Honsoku - 1628:
The Komosō's Fuke Shakuhachi Credo.
On 17th Century Ascetic Shakuhachi Ideology":
Tai Hei Shakuhachi - USA


Suizen - calligraphy by Myōan Taizan

www.shakuhachi.dk - Torsten Olafsson - Denmark


JAPANESE MUSIC in GENERAL: CD's & DVD's

Far Side Music - England

www.farsidemusic.com - England


JAPANESE WEBSITES
- bookshops, research societies & music journals


Mejiro - Tōkyō

目白- Mejiro - www.mejiro-japan.com - Tōkyō


Furuhonn - Ōsaka

古本- Furuhonn - www.furuhonn.com - Ōsaka


Isseidō - Tōkyō

一誠堂書店- Isseidō - www.isseido-books.co.jp - Tōkyō

虚無僧研究会- Komusō Kenkyū-kai - Tōkyō

尺八研究会- Syakuhati Kenkyū-kai - Ōsaka


Hōgaku Journal - Tōkyō

邦楽ジャーナル- Hōgaku Journal - Tōkyō


JAPANESE WEBSITES
- komusō shakuhachi centers & shakuhachi individuals


Myōan-ji - Kyōto

明暗寺- Myōan-ji - Kyōto

Myōkō-ji - Kyōto

妙光寺- Myōkō-ji - Kyōto

Kōkoku-ji - Yura, Wakayama

興国寺- Kōkoku-ji - Yura, Wakayama

尺八本曲東海連盟・献奏旅行- Pictures from a group visit to Kyōto Myōan-ji on September 16, 2007

虚無僧尺八- Yatō Osamu's komusō website

尺八と一休語りの虚無僧一路- Jiko Shōkai's Shakuhachi, Ikkyū and Komusō weblog

平成の虚無僧一路の日記- An additional Jiko Shōkai komusō weblog

無孔笛庵- Tsuboi Ōryō's Mukuteki-an komusō website

孤舟庵- Kosyuuan shakuhachi & komusō web portal

明暗尺八札幌分道場- Myōan Shakuhachi Dōjō website, Sapporo, Hokkaidō


THE JAPANESE & CHINESE LANGUAGES
- online dictionaries & digitized texts:

www.kotobank.jp
     Online Japanese-Japanese dictionary. In Japanese.

www.kotobank.jp
     Online Japanese-English dictionary. In Japanese & English.

www.21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp
     The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database. In Japanese & Chinese.

www.cbeta.org
     CBETA: Chinese Buddhist Electronic Association. In Chinese.

www.baus-ebs.org
     The Electronic Buddhadharma Society of BAUS. In Chinese.

www.ctext.org
     Chinese Text Project. In Chinese & English.

Iida Kyorei, Japan
     "Sankyoku (Shakuhachi). Extracurricular Readings." In Japanese.


STUDIES IN JAPANESE RELIGION:

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

SHAKUHACHI - sites in Scandinavian languages:


Suizen - calligraphy by Myōan Taizan

1.8 nobekan shakuhachi made by Monty H. Levenson

www.shakuhachi.dk - Torsten Olafsson - Denmark


The Danish Kyotaku group with Nishimura Kok? shortly before his death in 2002

Anders Nordin's Kyotaku site - Denmark In both Danish and English.

Jiri Klokocka's shakuhachi website - Sweden


SHAKUHACHI - history, philosophy, research,
     making & practice etc. - sites in English, German & Dutch:


The ESS SHAKUHACHI FORUM:

Click here and link to the ESS Shakuhachi Forum

Click in the logo and link to the new ESS Shakuhachi Forum

The European Shakuhachi Society - Europe


Monty H. Levenson

Monty H. Levenson's Tai Hei Shakuhachi site - USA


Kiku Day - UK/Denmark

Kiku Day's jinashi site - UK


Philip Horan - Ireland

Philip Horan's Shakuhachi Zen site - IRELAND


Peter Hill - USA

www.reibo.org - Peter Hill's "Reibo" shakuhachi site - USA


Gunnar Linder - Sweden

Gunnar Linder's Shakuhachi Homepage - Sweden


David Sawyer - USA

David Sawyer's Japan Shakuhachi site - USA


Jem Klein - USA

Jem Klein's's Hosetsu Shakuhachi website - USA


Michael Slavicek - Czech Republic     Shakuhachi Flutes - Czech Republic

Michal Slavicek's Shakuhachi | Jinashi site - Czech Republic


Yung Flutes - logo

Yung Flutes - USA


Mujitsu website - shakuhachi by Ken LaCosse

Ken LaCosse's Mujitsu Shakuhachi site - USA


The International Shakuhachi Society - logo

The International Shakuhachi Society - USA


Australian Shakuhachi Society - logo

The Australian Shakuhachi Society - Australia

Jeffrey Bennitt Jones and Morimasa Horiuchi

Morimasa Horiuchi's Myōan Take Chicago blogspot - USA


Jeffrey Bennitt Jones' Myōan Flute blogspot - USA


Nancy Beckman - USA

Nancy Beckman - California, USA


Vatislav Matou?ek - The Czech Republic

Vatislav Matoušek's Shakuhachi site - Czech Republic


Oliver Aumann - Japan

www.komuso.de
www.oliver-aumann.de


Shakuhachi - German speaking countries


Tilo Burdach - Bavaria/Germany

Tilo Burdach - Bavaria, Germany


www.shakuhachiforum.com


Kaito - Netherlands Shakuhachi Genootschap - The Netherlands


Ono Ranzan - France

Ōno Ranzan's Fuke-shū Shakuhachi site - France


Riley Kelly Lee - Australia

Riley Kelly Lee's Sound of Bamboo site - Australia


John Singer

John Singer's Zen Flute site - USA


Christopher Blasdel: A Shakuhachi Odyssey

Christopher Blasdel's Shakuhachi website - Japan


Alcvin Takegawa Ramos

Alcvin Takegawa Ramos' Suizen site - Canada


Ralph Samuelson - USA

Ralph Samuelson - USA


Stan Richardson - USA

Stan Richardson's Mujūan Dōjō site - Texas, USA


Ronnie Seldin - USA

Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin - USA


John Neptune - Japan

John Neptune's shakuhachi site - Japan


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