Shakuhachi Guides

Playing shakuhachi

• Note charts
• How to play shakuhachi (video)

Zen, meditation, mindfulness practices

• What is shakuhachi Zen, Suizen, mindfulness, or meditation?

The instrument – care, repair, madaké bamboo, jiari, jinashi, hotchiku, urushi, and so on

• How to buy shakuhachi
• Glossary of frequently used terms
• “What are shakuhachi and what makes them unique?”
• All about pitch on the shakuhachi or “being in tune”
• Japanese madaké bamboo (P. Bambusoides)
• Cracks, binding repairs, utaguchi inlays, and caring for shakuhachi
• Types of shakuhachi explained – jiari, jinashi, and hocchiku
• “What determines the sound and feeling of a shakuhachi”?
• “Why are shakuhachi expensive?”
• Shaku Japanese measurement explained
• Lacquer – Urushi and others

Making shakuhachi video series

• Harvesting and preparing madake bamboo

History

• A brief history of the shakuhachi
• Honkyoku Zen pieces
• The Komuso monks

People

• Fuke Zenji
• Higuchi Taizan
• Jin Nyodo
• Watazumi (Tanaka Masaru)