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#1 2007-09-24 15:25:57

Moran from Planet X
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Shakuhachi in Ken Burn's The War part I

Does anyone know who was playing/what recording used in the Japanese American segment of Ken Burn's The War part I Sunday night?

Also, there was a great picture of a Japanese American girl singing into an old mic in front of an American flag with her Japanese father sitting on her right, playing a lovely old, bound, fairly thick shakuhachi with an urushi-blackened utaguchi and bottom end of the root. Hoping this picture is in the public domain (maybe to be found in the companion book to the series).


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#2 2007-09-25 17:51:39

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Re: Shakuhachi in Ken Burn's The War part I

Researched this today and found that it is part of the National Archives and is unrestricted.

I'm going to see if I can hunt down a better copy directly through the archives.

http://www.chrismoran.com/NARA_210-CT-725.jpg

National Archives ID: 210-CT-725

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#3 2007-10-05 20:04:20

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Re: Shakuhachi in Ken Burn's The War part I

I think this is  Kohachiro Miyata playing Honshirabe. You can hear this on the CD "Japan - Shakuhachi - The Japanee Flute". It's the CD with the monk raking the gravel garden......

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#4 2007-10-05 20:06:48

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Re: Shakuhachi in Ken Burn's The War part I

gmiller wrote:

It's the CD with the monk raking the gravel garden......

I have met that monk and played shakuhachi for him.


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#5 2007-10-07 08:06:40

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Re: Shakuhachi in Ken Burn's The War part I

What did he say when he heard your music?  What temple is his association?

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#6 2007-10-07 11:22:27

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Re: Shakuhachi in Ken Burn's The War part I

Tono wrote:

What did he say when he heard your music?  What temple is his association?

He is the abbot of Daitokuj now. I met him before I started playing shakuhachi. Then when I started with shakuhachi and got that CD I recognized his face. I returned and blew shakuhachi in the temple. He remembered me from the previous visit and said, "You learned all that since I saw you last!?!?!?" He liked it.

That particular photo must be in a commercial photo library because I recently saw it used as a big poster for makeup at Sak's Fith Avenue in NYC.

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