 What's New in the World of Shakuhachi |
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Rest in Peace
Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin
(July 3, 1947 - May 29, 2017)
Founder & Director of
Ki-Sui-An
Shakuhachi Dojo
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SHAKUHACHI HONKYOKU Japanese Language |
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Shakuhachi Honkyoku Instruction |
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Kaoru Kakizakai Denver, CO Los Angeles, CA San Francisco, CA |
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New CDs by Kaoru Kakizakai |
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New Playing Guides & Collections of Sheet Music
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http://shakuhachi.com/P-Taniguchi-Sumie.html
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http://ShakuhachiArt.com
New Sheet Music |
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Takashi
Tokuyama Takashi Tokuyama is the founder of the Tokuyama Honkyoku Kai in Tokyo. He has traveled throughout Japan researching and transcribing honkyoku, some of which are rare and known only to a few surviving players. Tokuyama has published many of the oldest known pieces of "original" shakuhachi music. His sheet music series comes in four sets which correspond to the degree of complexity and order in which the pieces are learned by students at his school. All music is written in the Japanese cursive style and comes with an English translation of Tokuyama's notes on fingering, breath and chin technique. 4 Sets - 126 Handwritten Scores - 5 CDs YELLOW SERIES
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52 Newly Published Scores
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GOLD SERIES - Master
Level: "Initiation into the Secrets"
The Gold Series Master Level scores represent the most intricate and demanding honkyoku collected and arranged by Takashi Tokuyama-sensei. Hence, his belief that undertaking the study of this music initiates the player into the deepest secrets of shakuhachi Koten Honkyoku, revealed only in the process of mastering these pieces.
http://shakuhachi.com/SM-Tokuyama.html
New DVD
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HIDDEN LEGACY: This documentary film, using historical footage and interviews from artists who were interned to tell the story of how traditional Japanese cultural arts were maintained at a time when the War Relocation Authority (WRA) emphasized the importance of assimilation and Americanization. This film will be the first major presentation of the existence of traditional music, dance and drama in the camps. It is possible only because Shirley Kazuyo Muramoto-Wong has been searching, researching and collecting for over 20 years information on who these artists were. She has collected interviews, oral and visual histories, as well as artifacts from the internees and relatives of internees, including teachers, students, the performers, and the incredible artists who made instruments, costumes, and the props needed for a full performance from scraps of wood, toothbrush handles, gunny sacks, paint, and whatever they could scrape up. Her own family's history with the camps led her to become a kotoist and teacher of the Japanese koto (13-stringed zither). |
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2012 World Shakuhachi Festival |
http://shakuhachi.com/R-2012-WSF.html
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http:/shakuhachi.com/TOC-Education.html
New Sheet Music |
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SHAKUHACHI
KOTEN HONKYOKU: Volume 1 • Volume 2 • Volume 3 22 Handwritten Scores Fingering Chart |
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Modern Compositions (Kinko-ryu & 5 Line Staff Notation) |
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New Sankyoku CDs |
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New CDs |
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In Memoriam |
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Hozan Yamamoto |
Dan E. Mayers |
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