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Shakuhachi

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A named end-blown bamboo flute of Japanese Zen and later concert practice. Not a generic staff, and not every later tourist flute.

Zen

  • Shakuhachi is historically related to Bamboo.

    Chamberlain’s Music notes seat the shakuhachi as the end-blown bamboo flute of Japanese practice — bamboo flute speech, not a transverse fue alone.

    from Basil Hall Chamberlain · Things Japanese, 1890 (5th ed. 1905)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Things Japanese · Basil Hall Chamberlain

    Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese (5th ed. 1905).