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	Honkyoku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Honkyoku (本曲) are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called Komuso.
		Komuso played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century.
		There are many ryu, or schools, of honkyoku, each with their style, emphasis, and teaching methods.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Honkyoku (177 words)

	PLAYING HONKOKU; PRAYING HONKYOKU
		The Honkyoku or meditation pieces come from the ancient Komuso (wandering zen monks of emptiness) or from an anonymous monk in a zen temple emptying his life into sound perhaps four or five hundred years ago or more.
		It is a lifetime of practice, that is, attention to the sound and all the spaciousness inside each sound, the physical sensations of producing the sound and the thoughts that betray the poison that keeps the ego solid, blocking, and twisting the free flow of the sound.
		Honkyoku should be played for an audience that is prepared at least a little to listen, not as one being entertained or amazed, but as one prepared to experience the inner self in a different way.
	www.shakuhachi.org /HONKYOKU.html (1359 words)

	Buddhist music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Honkyoku are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called komuso.
		In the 18th century, a komuso named Kinko Kurosawa of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism was commissioned to travel throughout Japan and collect these musical pieces.
		The results of several years of travel and compilation were thirty-six pieces known as the Kinko-Ryu Honkyoku.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhist_music (353 words)

	Honkyoku: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Honkyoku (本曲) are the pieces of shakuhachi (shakuhachi: the shakuhachi (←- in japanese, pronounced /shakoo-hatchee/) is...
		Komuso played honkyoku for enlightenment (enlightenment: Education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge) and alms (alms: Voluntary contributions to aid the poor) as early as the 13th century (13th century: (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries)...
		There are many ryu (ryu: more facts about this subject), or schools, of honkyoku, each with their style, emphasis, and teaching methods.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/honkyoku (244 words)

	The Breath of Nature: a brief introduction to the shakuhachi
		In a honkyoku piece the strict metre of the sankyoku is suspended and the music conveys a sense of numinosity and spatial immensity.
		According to Suzuki wabi implies both a holy poverty, not to be confused with indigence and the spirit of eternal loneliness that pervades the shakuhachi honkyoku.
		It is said that when the honkyoku 'Ajikan' was performed in the presence of Tagore and Ghandi they were moved to tears, saying that what they heard was the voice of the dead.
	www.apresmidieditions.com /shakuhachi1.htm (1214 words)

	Newsletter - 5/18/04 - Shakuhachi Zen Flute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But honkyoku has turned out to be one of the most popular forms of music in the contemporary music scene today (in and out of Japan).
		"Honkyoku" is meant to entice the ears, the body and the mind to pay attention, to be present to the sound, but also to all that is. It is impossible to guess how the phrase will end or when or what will come next.
		The Honkyoku on the shakuhachi or slower pieces on a wind instrument are particularly helpful here because a note is not just struck, but followed through and sustained and many things can happen or not happen within its texture and space and all the while there is hearing, experiencing, thinking...
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl2/nl051804.html (5574 words)

	Bamboo Bell-Shakuhachi-The Bamboo Flute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The honkyoku repertoire is meant to express the pure-hearted, selfless devotion of these wandering monks, which is why all the honkyoku pieces are anonymous.
		The honkyoku pieces take their audience to a different place, as each phrase is questioning and haunting, as well as mellow and meditative.
		Honkyoku pieces are often played at a slow, unhurried pace that sends the listener into a trance.
	home.earthlink.net /~neljen/leebio.html (1083 words)

	Tokuyama Honkyoku CD - Vol. I: Hi Kyoku
		As an introduction to the study of koten honkyoku, Hifumi-no-shirabe is often the first piece attempted by the novice.
		The Meian Shinpo-ryu music is characterized by a constant tempo that departs from the traditional honkyoku music that relies solely on the breath to determine rhythm.
		Koten honkyoku is the oldest tradition of shakuhachi music and it maintains a special connection with Zen Buddhism.
	www.shakuhachi.com /SM-Tokuyama-HiKyoku.html (1012 words)

	TaikOz Repertoire
		Honkyoku have been received, performed and handed down from one individual to another for at least 500 years, largely within the context of Zen Buddhism.
		Honkyoku are performed on the shakuhachi, a simple, end-blown flute usually made of bamboo.
		Honkyoku are conceived and performed in the context of the breath.
	www.synergypercussion.com /taikoz/repertoire.html (3786 words)

	Shakuhachi Koten Honkyoku by Katsuya Yokoyama Zen Honkyoku Teachings
		All honkyoku pieces are performed by Katsuya Yokoyama on a 1.8 shakuhachi.
		Honkyoku have free rhythm, so the player will have to listen to examples of the song being played, then intuitively grasp the timing or 'ma' of each phrase for themselves.
		"Due to the fact that honkyoku have been passed on by oral transmission, there are many songs with the same title but different melodies, as well as songs with different titles but the same melody.
	www.shakuhachiyuu.com /infokotenhonkyoku.htm (869 words)

	Articles
		He was responsible for taking the honkyoku of the past, which was concerned mainly with meditation, and adding a higher degree of musicality to it.
		Honkyoku is the true sound of the shakuhachi which countless players before have contributed to its tradition.
		Honkyoku and shakuhachi are inseperable from learning some aspects of Japanese culture.
	www.bamboo-in.com /about-us/articles.htm (8750 words)

	Shakuhachi player Ishikawa Toshimitsu
		Besides his personal work which focuses on the classical honkyoku and the music of Fukuda Rando, he also participates in the shakuhachi ensamble, Fudo (children of the wind), with Yonemura Reisho and Okada Michiaki, where they are actively performing in concerts, radio broadcasts, and making CD recordings.
		This CD of the classic "honkyoku" pieces that have been taught in Yokoyama Katsuya's school, would be the most suitable for your self education, as the instrument used here is the shakuhachi of the most common length, isshaku-hassun (1.8' - Key of D).
		To consider the history of shakuhachi and the philosophy behind the expression, Honkyoku (basic pieces) is an indispensable key point, for that shakuhachi used to be, and still is, a peculiar instrument of the religious training of Zen Buddhism.
	shaku8-ishikawa.com /eprofile.htm (718 words)

	riley lee \| about the shakuhachi
		He also incorporated honkyoku playing techniques of other ryûha, a practice common among the performers of the Meiji era.
		Players came to Chikuho II primarily from Tozan Ryû in order to learn the honkyoku of the komusô, which their former sect did not have in its repertoire.
		It is therefore not the legitimacy of Shôdô's claim that is questioned by the senior members of Chikuho Ryû, but rather actions of his prior to his father's death, and the manner in which he asserted his claim.
	www.rileylee.net /shaku_history_chikuho.html (2948 words)

	HONKYOKU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Honkyoku are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Zen monks called Komuso.
		The results of several years of travel and compilation were 36 pieces known as the Kinko-Ryu Honkyoku, listed below.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/ho/Honkyoku.htm (92 words)

	John Singer - Shakuhachi Kinko Honkyoku
		This article is a compilation and translation of material concerning the 36 Kinko Ryu Honkyoku shakuhachi pieces, including 3 more that were later added into the Honkyoku repertoire of the Kinko Ryu (school).
		Thus the term "Kinko Ryu Honkyoku" refers to those specific Honkyoku pieces which were collected and revised by Kinko Kurosawa.
		The first is the information on each honkyoku piece contained in the book attached to the Kinko Ryu Grand Master Yamaguchi Goro's eleven record set of the 36 Honkyoku pieces.
	www.zenflute.com /kinko.html (417 words)

	Shakuhachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their songs (called "honkyoku") were paced according to the players' breathing and were considered meditation as much as music.
		Travel around Japan was restricted by the shogunate at this time, but the Fuke sect managed to wrangle an exemption from the Shogun, since their spiritual practice required them to move from place to place playing the shakuhachi and begging for alms.
		However, the honkyoku repertoire was known exclusively to the Fuke sect and transmitted by repetition and practice, and much of it was lost, along with many important documents.
	www.aaaah.org /wiki/en/sh/Shakuhachi.htm (655 words)

	EOL 6 CD review: "Soul of Shakuhachi"
		Victor already had the master tapes needed to release the recordings; the honkyoku set is a remake of the video and CD set, "Yamaguchi Goro Kinko Ryuu Shakuhachi Shinan" (Goro Yamaguchi's Teachings of the Kinko Style Honkyoku), CDMC-3001-3936, which consisted of two videos explaining and demonstrating the honkyoku and 36 CDs of the pieces.
		He had recorded one previous ten-LP set of honkyoku for CBS/Sony in 1984, "Yamaguchi Goro Kinko Ryuu Honkyoku Zen Shuu" (Complete Kinko-Style Honkyoku by Goro Yamaguchi), LP OOAG 988-998, which was eagerly collected by his students and fans.
		The long term effects of this recording can be measured more than in just the lifetimes of the master and his disciples; it was one of the examples of world music included in the cargo of the Voyager II spacecraft sent into the far reaches of outerspace in 1977.
	www.research.umbc.edu /eol/6/blasdel (1194 words)

	Recordings of Shakuhachi Flute
		A collection of traditional pieces (honkyoku) and improvisations for shakuhachi, recorded in the course of a single day on location in a large Japanese garden located in a town (Cowra) in western New South Wales, Australia.
		In 1980 the original 39 Koten Honkyoku by Jin Nyodo was award the "Outstanding Album of the Year" award by Japanese Ministry of Education.
		He is known for the blowing an original, personal style of Honkyoku on bamboos of enormous size and length called hotchiku flutes.
	www.shakuhachi.com /R-AlphabeticalList.html (8435 words)

	Kifu Mitsuhashi - The Art Of The Shakuhachi Vol.2
		Although it is a very unpretentious instrument, a skilled player can produce an astounding number of pitches and a nearly infinite variety of timbres and shadings.
		The sounds heard in the most traditional shakuhachi music (honkyoku, literally 'basic' or 'original') are usually not so much melodies in the Western sense of the word as they are a carefully composed series of short motives, phrases, and pitch cells played in a highly flexible rhythm and sometimes separated by long rests.
		He was awarded the Prize for Excellence by the Agency for Cultural Affairs for his first recital (1980) and the Arts Festival Prize by the same agency for his 1989 solo recital.
	www.folktrax.com /celestial/13225-2.php (605 words)

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		honkyoku, the ensemble music being incorporated in the Kinko repertoire required precision and clarity regarding time and speed.
		honkyoku (thirty-six), and particular performance practices and techniques, which are believed to have been developed by Kinko I (1710-1771).
		honkyoku of his own composition was performed without the organization’s authorization, in 1917 he was expelled from the Tozan
	www2.hawaii.edu /~scasano/thesis_sample.html (2207 words)

	Reibo.org: A Website for Shakuhachi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those on the left, written by Jin Nyodo, use the character for "bell" plus the character "bo" meaning "to seek or yearn for," whereas those on the right, written by Furuya Teruo, use the character for "spirit" along with bo.
		In societies with a strong metaphysical heritage, even if that heritage is dying out or is not intrinsically relevant to a practice such as playing honkyoku, it seems that the metaphysical tends to outweigh the physical aspects of playing honkyoku.
		Yet Fuke Zenji no doubt did not use a broken bell, and so when playing honkyoku it is important not only to develop one's spirit, but also to be able to produce a clear, powerful tone, as well as to have an instrument that can carry that tone.
	reibo.org (361 words)

	main (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is often said of koten honkyoku that they have “free rhythm.” While this statement is fundamentally true, it also invites frequent misunderstanding, for people have a tendency to interpret this as meaning they can play honkyoku any old way they like.
		It is true that there is not fixed rhythm to follow, but there are numerous places in all honkyoku where, if you miss the timing, the general feeling of the piece will fall apart.
		There is a kind of rhythmic pattern in honkyoku that follows this mathematical pattern: 1…1/2…1/4…1/8… and so on.
	www.kotodama.net /shakuhachi/2002/aug02.html (239 words)

	TALLPOPPIES.NET :: Tall Poppies Records
		The fourth in the series of six CDs containing the complete lineage of 13th century Japanese 'honkyoku', or meditation pieces, played by Riley Lee, who was the first non-Japanese to attain grand mastery of the instrument.
		The fifth in the series of seven CDs containing the complete lineage of 13th century Japanese 'honkyoku', or meditation pieces, played by Riley Lee, who was the first non-Japanese to attain grand mastery of the instrument.
		Riley Lee continues his survey of the Japanese meditation melodies, or honkyoku, for shakuhachi.
	members.iinet.net.au /~tallpoppies?honkyoku (667 words)

	Akasa Media--Articles on the Arts and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This necessitates total focus, to the point of the player becoming unified with the sound of his or her instrument.
		Though Seldin teaches a full repertoire of shakuhachi music, it is the honkyoku that he favors.
		Students begin by learning the secular gaikyoku, then move to the Zen honkyoku, some of which are as much as 800 years old.
	www.akasamedia.com /arts-culture/Seldin-shakuhachi-JT.htm (902 words)

	Shakuhachi Master
		The main motivation for John's concerts is to give his audiences an understanding of the shakuhachi both as an unusually dynamic musical instrument and as a meditative tool having a rich history within the Zen Buddhist tradition.
		John specializes in the performance of the Zen music (called Honkyoku in Japanese) which derives from the ancient tradition of the Komuso (wandering priests) who used the shakuhachi as a tool in their religious practices.
		These mendicant monks were well known for wandering and playing the shakuhachi and their history can be traced back to Japan's Muromachi period (1338-1573 A.D) It is often said that Zen music represents the true essence or "soul" of the shakuhachi.
	www.zenflute.com (528 words)

	tuition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I am one of the very few shakuhachi teachers who teach their students honkyoku from the very beginning.
		I myself began my own studies directly with honkyoku and I know many students are interested in doing the same.
		The above 35 pieces are all honkyoku that I have learned from Okuda Atsuya in his Zensabô style.
	kikuday.com /tuition.htm (367 words)

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