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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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Wave pattern

Wave - or particle?



Japanese Zen sand garden

Detail of Zen sand garden
at Daisen-in, Daitoku-ji, Kyōto
'Standing waves' ...
Early 16th century
Photo: T.O.




Literature in Western Languages

A:

Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen. Original edition.
     Center for Taoist Thought and Fellowship, 1992.

Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen - One Breath, One Mind II.
     Revised expanded edition; includes Blowing Zen II.
     Center for Taoist Thought and Fellowship, 2012.

Mikael S. Adolphson: The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers,
     and Warriors in Premodern Japan.
     University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2000.

Christoph Anderl: Studies in the Language of Zǔ-táng jí, Volume One.
     Dr. Art. dissertation, University of Oslo, Norway, 2004.
     In: Acta Humaniora, 213, Universiteit Gent, 2004.
     Download link: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2099435/file/3085620.pdf

Christoph Anderl: Studies in the Language of Zǔ-táng jí, Volume Two.
     Dr. Art. dissertation, University of Oslo, Norway, 2004.
     In: Acta Humaniora, 213, Universiteit Gent, 2004.
     Download link: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2099435/file/3085619.pdf

Masaharu Anesaki: History of Japanese Religion:
     with special reference to the social and moral life of the nation
     C.E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, 1963.
     First publ. by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1930.
     Link to online PDF file:
     https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.125609/page/n7/mode/2up

Masaharu Anesaki: "Prosecutions of Kirishitans after the Shimabara Insurrection."
     In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 1, No. 2 (July, 1938), pp. 293-300 (8 pages)
     Link to online PDF file:
     https://www.jstor.org/stable/2382669?seq=1

Peter Judd Arnesen: The Medieval Japanese Daimyo.
     Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1979

Sonja Arntzen, translator: Ikkyū and the Crazy cloud anthology,
     a Zen poet of Medieval Japan. Foreword by Shūichi Katō.
     University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1986.

James H. Austin: Selfless Insight: Zen and the Meditative Transformations of Consciousness.
     MIT Press, 2009.

James H. Austin: Zen and the Brain:
     Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness.
     MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.

James H. Austin: Zen-Brain Reflections: Reviewing Recent Developments in Meditation and States of Consciousness.
     MIT Press, 2006.


B:

Helen Josephine Baroni: Ōbaku Zen. The Emergence of the Third
     Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan.
     University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2000.

Helen Josephine Baroni: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism.
     The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., New York, 2002.

William Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck & Arthur Tiedemann, comp.:
     Sources of Japanese tradition. Vol. 2, 1600 to 2000.
    

George M. Beckman: The Making of the Meiji Restoration.
     The Oligarchs and the Constitutional Development of Japan, 1868-1891.
     University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1957.

Robert Neelly Bellah: Tokugawa religion: The cultural roots of modern Japan.
     Free Press, 1985.

Renata Cabral Bernabé: Religiosity and Underground Life:
     Christianity among the Japanese during the Persecution."
     In: Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies, 2nd Series, Volume 5,
     December 2022. Link to PDF file:
     https://www.academia.edu/94733401/Religiosity_and_Underground_Life_Christianity_among_the_Japanese_during_the_Persecution

Nick Bellando & Bruno Deschênes: "The Role of Tone-colour in Japanese Shakuhachi Music."
     Ethnomusicology Review 22(1), 2023.
     Link: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/22/piece/1036

Nick Bellando: "Shakuhachi History: Hitoyogiri: Samurai and Monkey Bones."
     In: European Shakuhachi Society Newsletter
     – Spring/Summer 2021, pp. 44-47.
     Link: http://files.shakuhachisociety.eu/publications/newsletters/ESS-Newsletter-Spring-Summer2021-finalDP-published.pdf

Donald Paul Berger: "The Shakuhachi and the Kinko Ryū Notation."
     In: Asian Music, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn, pp. 32-72.
     Texas University Press, 1969.
     Links: https://doi.org/10.2307/833910
     https://www.jstor.org/stable/833910

Donald Paul Berger & David W. Hughes: "Shakuhachi".
     Pages 532 to 534 in: S. Stanley & J. Tyrrell (editors):
     The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 9: "Iacobus to Kerman: Japan."
     Macmillan Publishers, London, 2001.

Bob Berlin-Grous & Monty H. Levenson: The Sound of Bamboo:
     Blowing Zen & The Spirit of Shakuhachi.
     Tai Hei shakuhachi, Willits, CA, USA, 2019.

Dominique Bertrand: Le corps du souffle: Voyage au coeur du son Broché.
     Editions Signatura, 2019.

Nancy Moore Bess: Bamboo in Japan.
     Kodansha Publishing, Tokyo, 2001.

Dr. Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya: "Dhyana (Meditation): Theory and Practice."
     Publ. online in 2019 on https://dramartyakumarbhattacharya.wordpress.com.
     Link URL: https://dramartyakumarbhattacharya.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/dhyana-meditation-theory-and-practice/

Steen Bille: Corvetten Galathea's Reise omkring Jorden 1845, 46 og 47. Anden Deel,
     Forlagt af Universitetsboghandler C.A. Reítzel,
     Kjöbenhavn, 1850.

Martina Binnig: Die Honkyoku in der Traditionslinie von Itchōken.
     Zum Repertoire des Shakuhachi-Tempels in Fukuoka/Japan.
     Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Musikwissenschaft (M.A.)
     Masterarbeit (M.A.) dated and submitted September 28, 2017.
     Link to online PDF file: https://www.docdroid.net/CeYWuYA/die-honkyoku-in-der-traditionslinie-von-itchoken-pdf

Karen E. Bjerre: 'The Denmark-Japan Society's First 50 Years.'
     In the 50th anniversary book Dansk-Japansk Selskab 1958-2008,
     Dansk-Japansk Selskab, Copenhagen, 2009.

Christopher Blasdel: Thesis title???
     MFA thesis in Ethnomusicology.
     Tokyo University of Fine Arts, 1982.

Christopher Blasdel: 'Snapshot: Syakuhati "Walking on its own"'.
     The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 7, pp. 707-709.
     Publ. by Routledge, 2002.

Christopher Blasdel: A Shakuhachi Odyssey. The Single Tone:
     A Personal Journey into Shakuhachi Music.
     Printed Matter Press: Tokyo, 2005.

Christopher Blasdel: "Shakuhachi fantasy and fact."
     In: C. Blasdel, The single tone: A personal journey into shakuhachi music.
     Kindle version by Single Tone Productions, pp. 33-47.

Christopher Blasdel: "The Shakuhachi: Aesthetics of a Single Tone."
     In: Japan Quarterly 31, pp. 214-217, 1984.
     Also published in Asahi Shinbun, April-June, Tokyo, 1984.      Link to a PDF online file:
     http://shakuhachi.wdfiles.com/local--files/nav%3Aside/Blasdel.pdf

Christopher Blasdel: The Single Tone:
     A Personal Journey into Shakuhachi Music.
     Kindle version by Single Tone Productions.
     https://www.amazon.com/Single-Tone-Personal-Journey-Shakuhachi-ebook/dp/B08QGBDSR1/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CKQVH15YYAE1&keywords=blasdel+the+single+tone&qid=1690885457&sprefix=blasdel+the+single+tone%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-2

Christopher Blasdel: The Shakuhachi: A Manual for Learning
     Kindle version by Single Tone Productions.
     The Single Tone; 4th edition (March 28, 2024)
     https://www.amazon.com/Shakuhachi-Learning-Christopher-Yohmei-Blasdel-ebook/dp/B0CW1F5HXQ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=YNGUJJJZS77G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.f1oR9GHWv0Pp3ZFGseP85bdPMxrComQloeg3CcdbsPs._cy_XyX80D3A7I_ldwwJSP65_CfejxvSk828AQ12KSM&dib_tag=se&keywords=christopher%20yohmei%20blasdel&qid=1711826669&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C161&sr=1-2&fbclid=IwAR3t2SO10bOJFBmpGf2fG53RVngm-Bvvst1wc7lHnJjIYz-lkOVkrymOSGA_aem_AU0PPs8_8_jmlWNM7JnT4h0qabwgV8qu0stqjRvo5ht-KG_1gBBkEk1bNkGomvdiaxCmEtCfg6f4GZsmJ0sLqBd

Christopher Blasdel: "Wondrous Tones: The Transnational Appeal of the Shakuhachi
     through Time and Space." Editor: Henry Johnson.
     In: Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era, pp. 188–204.
     Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2023.
     Link to e-book: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004687172_013


Christopher Blasdel interviewed by Anonymous: "The Sound of Zen".
     In: THE NATION, Thailand’s premier English Language Newspaper.
     Interview with Christopher Yohmei Blasdel. Publ. on Feb. 8, 1999
     Link: http://www.yohmei.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Sound-of-Zen.pdf

Christopher Blasdel, editor/translator: "Part II: History & Development."
     In: The Shakuhachi. A Manual for Learning, pp. 69-133.
     Translated and adapted from Kamisangō Yūkō: 'Suizen', 1974.

Christopher Blasdel & Kamisangō Yūkō:
     The Shakuhachi. A Manual for Learning.
     As translated & edited by
     Christopher Yohmei Blasdel.
     Tokyo, 1988; reprinted in 2008.
     Available at www.shakuhachi.com.

Leonard Blussé: "The Grand Inquisitor Inoue Chikugo no Kami Masashige,
     Spin Doctor of the Tokugawa Bakufu."
     Bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies, núm. 7, december, 2003, pp. 23-43.
     Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.
     Link to PDF file: https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/361/36100702.pdf


  • R.H. Blyth/Reginald Horace Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 1: General Introduction.
         From the Upanishads to Huineng. The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1960.
         Link to online PDF version: https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/blyth-zen1.pdf

    R.H. Blyth/Reginald Horace Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 4: Mumonkan.
         The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1966, 1974.

    Gunhild Borggren, Joan Hornby, Karen Ejersbo-Iversen & Lilli Krarup Edl, editors.
         50th anniversay book published by Dansk-Japansk Selskab, Copenhagen, 2009.

    Jørn Borup: Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism. Myōshinji, a living religion.
         Numen Book Series, Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2008.

    C.R. Boxer: The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650.
         Carcarnet Press Limited, Manchester, 1993.
         First published in 1951 by The University of
         California Press & the Cambridge University Press.
         Link to online PDF file: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2509463

    C.R. Boxer: The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650.
         Carcarnet Press Limited, Manchester, 1993.
         First published in 1951 by The University of
         California Press & the Cambridge University Press.
         Link to PDF file:
    https://ia801603.us.archive.org/9/items/THECHRISTIANCENTURYINJAPAN15491650CRBOXER/THE%20CHRISTIAN%20CENTURY%20IN%20JAPAN%201549-1650%20C%20R%20%20BOXER.pdf

    William Bramsen: Japanese Chronological Tables.
         Printed at the "Seishi Bunsha" office, Tokyo, 1880.

    Christopher Brickell, editor: Encyclopedia of Garden Plants:
         The American HorticulturalSociety.
         Macmillan, New York, 1990.

    Christopher Brickell, editor-in-chief: The Royal Horticultural Society
         A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Dorling Kindersley,
         London, New York, Stuttgart, Moscow, 1996.

    Frank Brinkley, ass. by Kikuchi Dairoku: A History of the Japanese People
         from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era.
         The Encyclopædia Britannica Co., New York & London, c. 1915.
         Link to PDF file:
         https://archive.org/details/historyofjapanes00briniala

    Ray Brooks: Blowing Zen: Finding an Authentic Life.
         Revised & Expanded Edition.
         Sentient Publications, LLC, Boulder, Colorado, 2011.

    John S. Brownlee: Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945.
         The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu.
         UBC Press, Vancouver & University of Tokyo Press, 1997.

    David D. Buck: "Three Han Dynasty Tombs at Ma-Wang-Tui."
         In: World Archaeology, Vol. 7, No. 1, Burial (Jun., 1975),
         pp. 30-45. Published by Taylor & Francis, Ltd.


    C:

    John Cage: Silence - Lectures and Writings.
         Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticutt, 1961, 1971.

    Schuyler van R. Cammann: 'Types of Symbols in Chinese Art.'
         In: The American Anthropologist, 'Studies in Chinese Thought',
         Vol. 55, No. 55, Part 2, 1953.

    Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty: Princess of Jade.
         Cardinal/Sphere Book, London, 1973.

    Steven D. Carter: 'Chats with the Master: Selections from "Kenzai zōdan".'
         In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 295-347.

    Steven Casano: "From Fuke Shuu to Uduboo: The Transnational Flow of the Shakuhachi to the West."
         In: The World of Music, Vol. 47, No. 3,
         The Music of "Others" in the Western World, 2005, pp. 17-33.
         Publ. by VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
         Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41700005?seq=1

    Wing-tsit Chan: The Platform Scripture. The Basic Classic of Zen Buddhism.
         St. John's University Press, New York, 1963, 1975.

    Cheng Te-k'un: 'Yin-Yang Wu-hsing and Han Art'.
         In: Harvard Journal of Asian Studies 20, 1-2, 1957.

    Michael Church, editor: The Other Classical Musics, Fifteen Great Traditions.
         Boydell Press/Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2016.
         Chapter 3 on pages 74-103: "Japan", by David W. Hughes.
         On pages 84-87: "The shakuhachi and its music."

    Hubert S.J. Cieslik: "The Great Martyrdom in Edo, 1623:
         Its Causes, Course, Consequences."
         In: Monumenta Nipponica X, 1954, pp. 1-44.
         Link to PDF file: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2382790

    Jonathan Clements: Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion.
         Published by Robinson, London, 2016.

    Martin Collcutt: Five Mountains. The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution
         in Medieval Japan.
         Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, 1981.

    Michael S.J. Cooper: They Came to Japan. An Anthology of European Reports
         on Japan, 1543-1640.
         University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, 1965.
    Link to PDF file: https://archive.org/details/theycametojapan0000coop

    Jean Crasset: The History of the Church of Japan.
         Written originally in French by Monsieur L'Abbe de T.
         and now translated into English by N.N. 2 volumes, 2010.
         Originally published in 1705-1707.

    Peter Crossley-Holland: 'Non-Western Music.'
         In: The Pelican History of Music I: Ancient Forms to Polyphony: Japan.
         Pelican Books, Harmondsworth, 1975, pp. 60-69.


    D:

    Peter N. Dale: The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness.
         First publ. by Croom Helm Ltd., 1986.
         Reprinted by Routledge, London, 1988.

    Dansk-Japansk Selskab 1958-2008. 50th anniversary celebration book.
         Edited by Gunhild Borggren, Joan Hornby,
         Karen Ejersbo-Iversen & Lilli Krarup Edl.
         Published by Dansk-Japansk Selskab, Copenhagen, 2009.

    Kiku Day, bibliography: Search the internet.

    Dave Dobbs: "Zen Gamma".
         Article about meditating Zen monks and brain wave activity.
         Publ. in in the journal Scientific Amerian Mind:
         SA Mind 16, 1, 9 (April 2005)

    Hugh De Ferranti: Japanese Musical Instruments.
         Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.

    Max Deeg: 'Komusō and "Shakuhachi Zen". From Historical Legitimation
         to the Spiritualisation of a Buddhist denomination in the Edo Period.'
         In: 'Japanese Religions', Vol. 32 (1 & 2): pp. 7-38, 2007.
         Link: https://www.academia.edu/11667141/Komuso_and_Shakuhachi_Zen_From_Historical_Legitimation_to_Spiritualisation_of_a_Buddhist_Denomination_in_the_Edo_Period.

    Bruno Deschênes: 'B Deschenes: Shakuhachi a Reinvented Tradition.'
         English summary of the author's book in French,
         "Le Shakuhachi Japonais", Paris, 2017.
         Link to online PDF version:
         http://files.shakuhachisociety.eu/calendar-2017/BDeschenes_shakuhachi_a_reinvented_tradition.pdf

    Bruno Deschênes & Yuko Eguchi: Embodied Orality: Transmission
         in Traditional Japanese Music."
         In: Asian Music, Volume 49, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2018,
         pp. 58-79 (Article). Published by University of Texas Press.
         Link to PDF: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/684150

    Bruno Deschênes: "Japanese Traditional Instrumental Music. An overview of solo and ensemble development."
         Web article, no date. Link: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/japan.htm#shakuhachi

    Bruno Deschênes: Le shakuhachi japonais. Une tradition réinventée.
         Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2017.

    Bruno Deschênes: 'The Interest of Westerners in Non-Western Music.'
         In: World of Music-London Then Berlin-, January 1, 2005.
         https://www.academia.edu/860390/The_Interest_of_Westerners_in_Non_Western_Music?email_work_card=title

    Bruno Deschênes: Transmusicality, Mastering a Music from Another Culture."
         Zagreb, Croatian Musicological Society, 2022.

    Sebastian Dobson: Unter den Augen des Preussen-Adlers, Lithographien, Zeichnungen und Photographien
         der Teilnehmer der Eulenburg-Expedition in Japan, 1860-61,
         Under eagle eyes, lithographs, drawings & photographs from the Prussian expedition to Japan, 1860-61,
         Sebastian Dobson; Sven Saaler, 1968-; Deutsche Gesellschaft fü:r Natur- und Vö:lkerkunde Ostasiens, 2012

    John Dougill: In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians.
         A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival.
         Tuttle Publishing, 2012, 2015.

    Heinrich Dumoulin: A History of Zen Buddhism.
         Pantheon Books, New York, 1963.

    Heinrich Dumoulin: Zen Buddhism. A History. Volume 1: India & China.
         Trsl. by James W. Heisig & Paul F. Knitter.
         World Wisdom, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 2005.

    Heinrich Dumoulin: Zen Buddhism. A History. Volume 2: Japan.
         Trsl. by James W. Heisig & Paul F. Knitter.
         World Wisdom, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 2005.


    E:

    James Rhys Edwards: 'Theory "Between Inside and Outside": A Response to Zachary Wallmark's
         "Sacred Abjection in Zen Shakuhachi".'
         Ethnomusicology Review, Volume 17 (2012)
         Link: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/17/piece/584?fbclid=IwAR0uo-MVeubSaif7iyx5NyyzEhxrPRCnfi-uFgg7guHsh0lPI9mxzD7i0YI

    George Elison: Deus Destroyed. The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan.
         Harvard East Asian Monographs, Volume: 141.
         Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1973, 1988, 1991.
         Link: https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/deus-destroyed-the-image-of-christianity-in-early-modern-japan-reprintnbsped-0674199626-9780674199620.html

    George Elison & Bardwell L. Smith, editors:
         Warlords, Artists, and Commoners.
         Japan in the Sixteenth Century.      University Press of Hawaii, 1981.

    Sir Charles Elliot: Japanese Buddhism. London, 1935.
         3rd impression, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1964.

    Shusaku Endo / Endō Shūsaku: Silence.
         Original Japanese novel published in 1966.
         Peter Owen Publishers, London, 2003, 2007 & 2009.
         English translation first published in 1969
         by Sophia University Press. Tokyo,
         Copyright © by William Johnston, 1969.
         Movie by Martin Scors´se published in 2016.

    Ennin's Diary, se Edwin O. Reischauer.


    F:

    David Farrelly: The Book of Bamboo.
         Sierra Club Books, San Fransisco, 1984.

    Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia.
         Harvard University Press, 2005.

    Ingrid Fritsch: Die Solo-Honkyoku der Tozan-Schule: Musik für
         Shakuhachi zwischen Tradition und Moderne Japans.
         In: Studien zur traditionellen Musik Japans, Vol. 4,
         Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1979.

    Ronald H. Fritze: Invented Knowledge. False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions.
         Reaktion Books, London, 2009.

    Fujii Joji: Edo jidai no o-fure.
         "Public Proclamations in Edo Period Japan."
         Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tokyo, 2013.

    Fung Yu-lan: A Short History of Chinese Philosophy.
         The Free Press, New York & Collier-MacMillan Limited,
         London, 1948, 1968.


    G:

    Robert Garfias: Music of a Thousand Autumns.
         The Tōgaku Style of Japanese Court Music.
         University of California Press, Berkeley, 1975.

    Robert Garfias: Music of a Thousand Autumns.
         The Tōgaku Style of Japanese Court Music.
         An Analysis of Theory in Practice.
         Dissertation. University of California press, 1965.

    Matt Gillan: "Sankyoku Magazine and the Invention of the Shakuhachi
         as Religious Instrument in Early 20th-Century Japan."
         In: Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2021.
         Link: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol7/iss1/2/

    Gerald Groemer: Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900:
         The Beggar's Gift.
         Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia, January 2016.

    Robert Grous - see Bob Berlin-Grous.

    R.H. van Gulik: Hsi K'ang and his Poetical Essay on the Lute.
         Sophia University, Tokyo, and The Charles E. Tuttle Company,
         Rutland, Tokyo, 1941, 1969.

    Gunsho ruijū, Vol. 28. First published in 1733 by Hanawa Hokiichi.
         Zoku Gunsho Ruijū Kankōkai, Tokyo, 1933.

    Andreas B. Gutzwiller: Die Shakuhachi der Kinko-Schule.
         In the series 'Studien zur traditionellen Musik Japans, Band 5.
         Bärenreiter - Kassel, Basel, London, 1983.

    Andreas B. Gutzwiller: Shakuhachi. Aspects of History, Practice and
         Teaching. PhD thesis, Wesleyan University, USA, 1974.

    Andreas B. Gutzwiller: "The Shakuhachi of the Fuke-Sect: Instrument of Zen."
         In: The World of Music Vol. 26, No. 3, Sacred Music II (1984), pp. 53-65 (13 pages)
         Published by: VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
         Links: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43561007?seq=1
         https://www.jstor.org/stable/43561007

    Andreas B. Gutzwiller & Gerald Bennett: 'The world of a single sound:
         basic structure of the music of the japanese flute shakuhachi.'
         In: Musica Asiatica Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press,
         Cambridge, England, 1991, pp. 36-60.


    H:

    Edward Hagemann: "The Persecution of the Christians in Japan
         in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century."
         Publ. in Pacific Historical Review
         Vol. 11, No. 2, June, 1942, pp. 151-160 (10 pages)
         Made available byy: University of California Press
    Link to online PDF file: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3633765

    Eta Harich-Schneider: A History of Japanese Music.
         Oxford University Press, London, 1973.

    Eta Harich-Schneider: The Rhythmical Patterns in Gagaku and Bugaku.
         E.J. Bill, 1954.

    William Harmless: Mystics.
         Oxford University Press, 2008.

    Miss Dulcie Harmony: Musical Japan.
         Publ. by Akiyama Aisaburo, Tokyo, 1895, 1897.

    LeRon James Harrison: "From Martial Arts to Practice: A Philosophical Examination of the Term Martial Art."
         In: Philosophy Study, August 2015, Vol. 5, No. 8, 383-394.
         Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/FMfcgzGtwznDfzSFvtkVBpcLlGLsmptB?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1

    LeRon James Harrison: "Gagaku in Place and Practice: A Philosophical Inquiry
         into the Place of Japanese Imperial Court."
         In: Asian Music, Volume 48, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2017, pp. 4-27.
         Link: https://www.academia.edu/30951583/Gagaku_in_Place_and_Practice_A_Philosophical_Inquiry_into_the_Place_of_Japanese_Imperial_Court_Music_in_Contemporary_Culture?auto=download&email_work_card=download-paper

    Peter Haskel: Bankei Zen. Translations from the Record of Bankei.
         Edited by Yoshito Hakeda.
         Grove Press, Inc. New York, 1984.

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