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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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2000: Tsukitani Tsuneko '(Hon)kyoku' Book, English Summary

尺八古典本曲の研究

Tsukitani Tsuneko: 'Shakuhachi Koten Honkyoku no Kenkyū', 2000.

On page 270 in the back of her book, Tsukitani Tsukitani makes it clear that her research centered on the rather short period of 'honkyoku' history spanning from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. See scanned text at page bottom.

Do note, however, that the term 'Honkyoku', 本曲, is only to be seen once in any known early to mid-Edo Period document, namely in a Kyōto Myōan-ji document dated 1694.

It was then presented in order to distinguish from so-called 'ran-kyoku', 乱曲, "rebellious music" that was not accepted as proper 'Komusō' music.

The term 'Honkyoku' apparently first appears again in the title of a 1847 manuscript authored by a certain Kiyo no Umon, n.d., titled Ikkan-ryū shakuhachi honkyoku-fu, Zen, Kanji Title, "Ikkan Tradition Shakuhachi Honkyoku Notations, Complete"; Tsukitani, 2000, p. 61, title 7.

Read more about the 'Ikkan-ryū' here, URL:
http://shakuhachi-genkai.com/analysis/analysis10-ikanryu.html

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