Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

James Jennings has done the impossible by making the files of my PhD thesis suitable for putting on-line. If you are interested, please go to the following link:

                      http://www.rileylee.net/thesis.html

There are still a number of issues that have yet to be sorted out, mainly to do with missing illustrations, some unusual kanji, and the many pages of transcriptions. But rather than procrastinate for another ten years, I've put the files on our website, imperfections and all. The illustrations and transcriptions will be added in the near future.

Even those of you who already have a hard copy of the dissertation may want to have a look, as James' version is much more legible than the UMI photocopy of the microfiche. This will be especially true once the illustrations and transcriptions are included. For example, the colour coding in the transcriptions will be visible for the first time.

The internet version also has the hundreds of major and minor corrections that Tom Deaver made on the dissertation after it was submitted to University of Sydney, and which were not included in the UMI hard copy.

Chap 3, in my opinion, is still the most comprehensive history of the shakuhachi (up to the 1970s) written in English.

Best regards, Riley Lee