Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Now THAT is hot!

Very, very cool!

I want that photo for my desktop......

Tairaku wrote:

Smallest=1.0 by Chikuyo. Largest=3.5 by Perry Yung

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Everybody should be advised. This is what can happen!

EXCELLENT!

Beautiful!!

Are you airing them?

Let's hope it is that and not something more lascivious in nature.

Shakuhachi Porn!!

I think we should form a shakuhachi Hit Squad & go to the guys house;-)

Jim Thompson wrote:

Tairaku wrote:

There are people in Japan much worse than me. I know a guy with over 2000. He is demented. I would like to pare this collection down, it's too many.

2000 shakuhachi! That's hard to fathom. What does the guy do for a living? I guess if he sold shakuhachi we'd know about him. His story must be curious one.

His work? A total shakuhachi nerd! Nobody knows where the money comes from - apart from his wife is working. He doesn't sell much - only to a few people. He has the most amazing amount of research where he has measured every single shakuhachi that has gone through his hands in detail (and that is thousands).... all written in notebooks. Imagine if there is a fire! Kosugi, the chair person of the Komusō Research Group has tried to persuade him to make his research open to others. But he doesn't really want to.

As Tukitani told me one day: Most of the research done within the field of shakuhachi has been done by amateur aficionados and not professional researchers. That is why it is so hard to trace the sources...
The fact is that a lot of amazing amateur researchers have added a lot of important information to our knowledge about this instrument. I really hope he will share his.

When you go to his home, there is shakuhachi everywhere - you almost step on them....
His story IS curious. He told me in order to really make your life a REAL shakuhachi life - you have to think about only shakuhachi and so much that you forget your partner's face. I told him I was an amateur! I know Iwamoto has expressed similar thoughts.

We are talking about the same guy, aren't we Brian?

Kiku Day wrote:

When you go to his home, there is shakuhachi everywhere - you almost step on them....
His story IS curious. He told me in order to really make your life a REAL shakuhachi life - you have to think about only shakuhachi and so much that you forget your partner's face. I told him I was an amateur! I know Iwamoto has expressed similar thoughts.

We are talking about the same guy, aren't we Brian?

Yeah. That's not his home, it's his dojo. I've never been to his home.

However this degree of obsession is a cautionary tale as Iwamoto exemplifies.

The guy we're talking about.......among other things, he committed to shakuhachi after being a radical student activist in the '60's. He was involved in violent stuff and one of the cops took him aside and said, "This is not going to end well for you. You like shakuhachi, pull yourself together and focus on that instead of this revolt." We all come to shakuhachi from different angles.

Tairaku, is there a favorite Shakuhachi? If so, why do you like it characteristically above other flutes?

Chris Moran wrote:

Okay, now it's time for one-by-one full length photos with size and maker.

No slacking.

With sound clips for each one, of course...

I don't know if there is just one. There are maybe 2 or 3 which could be my favorites.