Josen shakuhachi photo archive

Here are some photos of my early works, shakuhachi and one transverse bamboo flute, from 2001 to 2008. I was able to recover these using waybackmachine actually! Enjoy, J

One of my first bamboo flutes which would've been back in 2001 or 2002 when I was around sixteen years old (photo is from back then too, can you tell). I harvested the bamboo for this in Florida where I was living at the time.

Here's my old yaki-in 'hippy-like' freehand pyrography signature from back in 2007, NYC.

and by the thumb-hole

This is a 2.1 B Jinashi I crafted back in 2007 and is still a favorite shakuhachi for Brian Purdy of HarpGear.com

I believe this is the root end of the above shakuhachi 2.1 B, 2007, NYC

The bottom of the root end of the 2.1 Jinashi shakuhachi, 2007, NYC

I think this is the utaguchi for the 2.1 Jinashi shakuhachi, 2007, NYC

Not sure on the length of this Jinashi shakuhachi I crafted but had a nice curve to it, 2007, NYC

The root end of the above Jinashi shakuhachi, 2007, NYC

Unconventional curvature on this Jinashi shakuhachi I made but nonetheless pretty bamboo, 2007, NYC

I believe this is the root end for the above shakuhachi, 2007, NYC

Another of the root end, 2007, NYC

Yet another of the root end, 2007, NYC

A care kit I used to offer with my shakuhachi, 2007. NYC

A shakuhachi I made from black bamboo back in 2007, NYC

And an above root black bamboo shakuhachi, 2007, NYC

Looks like a big wide bore hocchiku shakuhachi above root end that I made next to a root end for comparison, 2007, NYC

The same hocchiku shakuhachi by itself, 2007, NYC

An average size above root end shakuhachi, 2007, NYC

Nice root end shakuhachi shot, 2007, NYC

Nice root end shakuhachi shot, 2007, NYC

Nice root end shakuhachi shot, 2007, NYC

2.4 goma shakuhachi root end, 2012, NC

2.3 shakuhachi root end shot goma bamboo, 2012, NC

3.1 shakuhachi root end shot goma bamboo, 2012, NC

More to come when I regain access to some of my files!