Definitions
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- noun music A Japanese flute which is tuned to a
pentatonic scale is end-blown like arecorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute, originally used by Zen Buddhist Monks of the 普化禅 (ふけぜん, fuke zen) sect in the practice of吹禅 (すいぜん ,suizen , "blowing meditation").
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many wore head coverings to be anonymous -- the Japanese concept of ma or nothingness -- and they began to play the "non-music" of shakuhachi, which is filled with so much nothingness.
Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute 2009
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Later, the 1926 film "A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeiji)," is conjured from the distant history of Japanese silent cinema, with a live score performed by the chamber quintet Ensemble N_JP, featuring shakuhachi master Akikazu Nakamura.
A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives Steve Dollar 2010
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The film's otherworldly shakuhachi score sets a tone that is jarred by shocking eruptions of violence.
A Cinematic Diet Loaded With Preservatives Steve Dollar 2010
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The single set — three white cubes flanked by a pair of shadow screens — minimal props and costumes, and Ms. McCagg's eerie white masks presented a nearly blank slate, lightly decorated with spare brush strokes: a modified flute that evoked the Japanese shakuhachi; a haunting, six-string fretted acoustic bass guitar that sounded variously like a koto or an oud; a sighing harmonium; intermittent percussion.
He Crosses Borders Brett Campbell 2010
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The single set — three white cubes flanked by a pair of shadow screens — minimal props and costumes, and Ms. McCagg's eerie white masks presented a nearly blank slate, lightly decorated with spare brush strokes: a modified flute that evoked the Japanese shakuhachi; a haunting, six-string fretted acoustic bass guitar that sounded variously like a koto or an oud; a sighing harmonium; intermittent percussion.
He Crosses Borders Brett Campbell 2010
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The single set — three white cubes flanked by a pair of shadow screens — minimal props and costumes, and Ms. McCagg's eerie white masks presented a nearly blank slate, lightly decorated with spare brush strokes: a modified flute that evoked the Japanese shakuhachi; a haunting, six-string fretted acoustic bass guitar that sounded variously like a koto or an oud; a sighing harmonium; intermittent percussion.
He Crosses Borders Brett Campbell 2010
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During the Meiji Restoration (1868-1912), the traditional shakuhachi music was banned and the flute itself was demoted from a spiritual tool to a mere musical instrument.
Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute 2009
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The traditional music for shakuhachi, known as honkyoku, has been the music of Zen meditation for over 1,000 years.
Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute 2009
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He is one of three shakuhachi teachers in New York City and is also the artistic director for Kyo Shin An Arts in Brooklyn.
Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute 2009
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A recent gathering featured James Nyoraku Schlefer, a noted shakuhachi grand master -- which means he plays the Japanese bamboo flute.
Jim Luce: Park Avenue's Nichibei Exchange - and the Japanese Flute 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word shakuhachi
"The first concert shows the venue's variety: Ensemble East, a group that plays traditional Japanese instruments, performs works by such composers as Tadao Sawai, Michio Miyagi, and James Nyoraku Schleger (on shakuhachi)."
The New Yorker, October 25, 2010, p 20
October 27, 2010