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1974: 'Komusō' & 'Suizen'?: The Emperor's New Clothes!
PART 1
What Prof. Kamisangō Yūkō Once Precisely Told Us
about Supposed "Edo Period 'Komusō Suizen' Life"
This is yet a new subject of revealing information illuminating still ongoing, widely spreading history fabrication and falsification:
How Prof. Kamisangō Yūkō,
上参郷祐康, 1935-2018,
was so much mistaken back then, now half a century ago - and how the rest of the Shakuhachi World has been misled and lied to - ever since then.
RELATED WEB PAGE LINKS:
1974: 'Komusō' & 'Suizen'?: The Emperor's New Clothes!
PART 2
What Prof. Kamisangō Yūkō Once Precisely Told Us
about Supposed "Edo Period 'Komusō Suizen' Life"
1974: The Year of the End of 'Shakuhachi Suizen'
- When the Term 'Suizen' was Kidnapped, Hi-jacked,
and Degraded into Mere "New Age", "Healing",
"Holism", and "Mindfulness" Meaninglessness
1980s: Questionable Western Writings about 'Suizen'
Andreas B. Gutzwiller, Christopher Blasdel, Riley Kelly Lee ...
HERE FOLLOWS PART 1 of This New INQUIRY:
吹禅の理解のために - SUIZEN no RIKAI no TAME ni
"Towards an Understanding of [the Term] 'Sui-Zen'"
On page 9 in the very comprehensive publication (record descriptive notes) that accompanies Nippon Columbia's 1974 triple LP collection titled 'Suizen'
- Nippon Columbia KX-7001-3 -
renowned Japanese musicologist Kamisangō Yūkō, 1935-2018, explains 'Suizen' like this in his foreword,
following a short general, un-problematic introduction (Par. 1):
Par. 2-3:
吹禅 (すいぜん) とは何であるか。
一言でいうならば、吹禅とは尺八を吹いてする禅定である。
"What is Suizen?
To put it simply, 'Suizen' is meditation [zentei]] performed by blowing the shakuhachi
[in order to experience enlightenment]."
Par. 4:
結跏趺坐して禅定に至る「坐禅」に対応して、名ずられたものであり、
「吹竹禅」「吹簫禅」とも呼ばれる。
"The term corresponds to 'zazen', which involves sitting in a cross-legged position and reaching a meditative state,
and is also called 'sui-chiku-zen' ["blow-bamboo-meditation"] and 'sui-shō-zen' ["blow-flute-meditation"]."
Par. 5:
「竹」とは尺八のこと、また「簫」とは、中国の類似の楽器「洞簫」にならって、
尺八を中国風にしゃれて呼びなしたものである。
"'Chiku/take' ["bamboo"] refers to the shakuhachi, as 'shō' ["flute"] refers to the similar Chinese instrument 'dong-xiao/tung-hsiao' [Jap: 'dōshō],
a pun on the Chinese name for shakuhachi."
Par. 6:
この吹禅の考え方は、禅宗の一派である普化宗から生まれた。
"This idea of 'Suizen' was born from the Fuke sect, a branch of the Zen Sect."
Par. 7:
普化宗は近世の日本で成立した非常に特殊な宗派であり、その僧侶が虚無僧である。
"The Fuke sect is a very special sect that was established in early modern Japan,
and its monks are [the] Komusō."
Par. 8:
つまり、吹禅とは虚無僧特有の禅であった。
"In other words, 'Suizen' was a type of Zen unique to [the] Komusō."
Par. 9:
その吹禅の結果あるいわ手段として伝承された音楽が「普化尺八古典本曲」である。
"The music that has been handed down as a result of the Way of 'Suizen' are the "Fuke Shakuhachi Classical Pieces" ('Fuke Shakuhachi Koten Honkyoku')."
Par. 10:
本稿の課題は、吹禅の音楽の理解のために尺八楽の歴史を略述することである。
"The task of this paper is to outline the history of shakuhachi music in order to understand the music of 'Suizen'."
This is the question, though;
Where is the solid documentary evidence: Original Edo Period texts,
that prove Prof. Kamisangō's above quoted statements?
The truth is, of course: Now half a century later, any such sources of literary proof are still alarmingly non-existent - and will forever so be!
RELATED WEB PAGE LINKS:
1974: 'Komusō' & 'Suizen'?: The Emperor's New Clothes!
PART 2
What Prof. Kamisangō Yūkō Once Precisely Told Us
about Supposed "Edo Period 'Komusō Suizen' Life"
1974: The Year of the End of 'Shakuhachi Suizen'
- When the Term 'Suizen' was Kidnapped, Hi-jacked,
and Degraded into Mere "New Age", "Healing",
"Holism", and "Mindfulness" Meaninglessness
1980s: Questionable Western Writings about 'Suizen'
Andreas B. Gutzwiller, Christopher Blasdel, Riley Kelly Lee ...
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