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!