Shakuhachi

「修行尺八」歴史的証拠の研究ホームページ
'Shugyō Shakuhachi' rekishi-teki shōko no kenkyū hōmupēji - zen-shakuhachi.dk

**The "Ascetic Shakuhachi" Historical Evidence Research Web Pages**

Introduction & Guide to the Documentation & Critical Study of Ascetic, Non-Dualistic Shakuhachi Culture, East & West:
Historical Chronology, Philology, Etymology, Vocabulary, Terminology, Concepts, Ideology, Iconology & Practices

By Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson • トーステン無穴笛オーラフソン • デンマーク • Denmark

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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"

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 1
    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 2 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'"

This is Chapter 10 in Kamisangō Yūkō's 1974 Nippon Columbia sponsored printed lecture on 'Suizen':

虚無僧の有様 - 吹禅の生活と奏曲

"Komusō Reality - Suizen Life and Music Practice"

Scanned from pages 17 and 18 in the 1974 'Suizen' cover notes.

Here follows Christopher Yohmei Blasdel's 1988/2008 adaptation/"translation" of Chapter 10:

Scanned from Blasdel's 2008 book edition pages 104-107

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 1
    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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