Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

I've heard that there are some teachers in Taibei (Taipei) and Gaoshung (Kaohsiung), but I would guess that they're mostly focused on minyo. I saw that the recent Young Players Competition at the International Shakuhachi Festival in Sydney had a few entrants from Taiwan -- you might want to try to get their email addresses and ask them directly. If you need help communicating with them in Chinese, I'd be happy to translate for you.

Zak

Hi, Shashank...

There is a Taiwanese Shakuhachi form here:  http://shaku8.tosaint.com/index.php

It might also be of help.

thanks guys....Derek  I am looking at that forum right now...
Zakarius, I will be in touch with you for more....I will be moving to Taibei from September...
Shashank

Hi guys,
  Yeah the guy who was in the finals in the WSF08 competitiowas from mainland China, Shanghai I think. I believe that most of the players from China who entered were associated with a teacher named Kanzaki Ken. He's from Osaka, but he teaches often in Gaoxiong, Taichung, and Taipei in Taiwan.  I have never heard him actually play so I cannot vouche for him, but he has studied 7 holed shakuhachi with Miyata Kohachiro and is a Shihan in the Kinko ryu under Mitsuhashi Kifu.
Here is his email address, he probably has a basic level of English and he does speak Chinese as well:
kanzaki.ken@bmbnt.com

I'd send him an email and see when he'll be there, I think he travels there and teaches often, or lives there half the year.

Sorry about that,
This was also listed for Kanzaki Ken (神崎憲):
info2008@bmbnt

The website he runs is called bamboo network:
http://www.bmbnt.com/

And I think he is in charge of the Taiwan Shakuhachi Society (all in chinese):
http://www.shaku8.org.tw/index.html

Here is a site of a player connected with Kanzaki sensei (Zak you'll have to read the Chinese though, I can only pick up small pieces of it- BTW it really is an advantage to learn Chinese, you'll pick up so much more Kanji than learning Japanese):
http://www.shianism.com/meter8.htm

I am pretty sure he teaches Honkyoku from the Kinko ryu Kifu school and uses both jiari and jinashi chokan. He has performed with Mitsuhashi Kifu and other places around so he s probably pretty good.

Hi Zak
Sorry for the late reply
I am in Taiwan already.....Nankang, Taipei
I came here as a Post Doctoral Researcher at Academia Sinica
How may I contact you?
Cheers
Shashank

shashank wrote:

I am in Taiwan already.....Nankang, Taipei
I came here as a Post Doctoral Researcher at Academia Sinica
How may I contact you?

I'm in Taichung if you're ever in the neighborhood. I generally work 7 days a week (but still under 30 hours a week), so my chances of getting up to Taibei to visit are slim. Toss me an email and we can try to work something out

Zak