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About Torsten Mukuteki O & This Website
WELCOME to ZEN-SHAKUHACHI.DK
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INTRODUCTION
Unveiling & Verifying the Actual Historical Origins & Unique Secrets
of Ascetic, Non-Dualistic Shakuhachi Traditions, Ideologies & Practices
Introduction & Guide to the Documentation & Critical Study of Ascetic,
Non-Dualistic Shakuhachi Culture, East & West:
Historical Chronology, Philology, Linguistics, Terminology, Etymology, Vocabulary,
Concepts, Semantics, Ideology & Iconology
By Danish/Icelandic Torsten Olafsson, Denmark:
Multi Musician, Composer, Lyrics Writer, Music Publishing Editor, Music Transcriber, Graphical Designer, Photographer, Web Designer,
Language Critic, Japanologist, Chronologist, Shakuhachi Historian, Translator, Author & Lecturer
From the beginning, WWW Internet web designer presence and publishing activity since 2003:
An unbiased, non-profit, strictly documentary evidence based research and information endeavour
completely independent of any external funding,
totally devoid of self-promoting academic career aspirations
and any possible implicated imagined financial profit prospects.
Torsten Olafsson's 1987 master's thesis in Japanology titled
"Early Seventeenth Century Shakuhachi Ideology.
THE KAIDŌ HONSOKU:
A Komosō's Fuke Shakuhachi Credo Dated 1628.
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987."
was published internationally in 2003 by Tai Hei Shakuhachi, c/o Monty H. Levenson, Willits, California.
Link: https://www.shakuhachi.com/PG-Olafsson.html
Torsten Olafsson earned the "Exam. art." degree (English equivalent: B.A.) in Chinese Art
& Culture in 1974, the "Exam. art." degree (English equivalent: B.A.) in Japanology in 1981,
and submitted his internationally recognized academic Japanology master's thesis on the 1628
Kaidō honsoku 'Komosō' Shakuhachi document in 1987,
all c/o the Eastasian Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Academic, truth-seeking credo:
Only objective, unprejudiced, well documented evidential historical facts count and matter ...
- secondarily so, though - maybe just at times - objective and unbiased
educated academic speculation may occasionally be allowed for,
under due responsibility, of course.
Kronborg, Elsinore, North Sealand, a.k.a. "Hamlet's Castle". Photo: Torsten Olafsson, 2017
This Website is Programmed in Very Simple HTML Coding
- Recommended Browsers
During ongoing editing and programming the web pages are primarily being checked in, and prepared for, the browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox
occasionally checked and tested in Opera and Safari, on PC and cell phone.
It is warmly recommended to experience this website on a personal computer with a large, widescreen HD monitor.
This is not a commercial website that monitors your internet behaviour, records your search preferences.
You are being met with no request to "accept cookies" or anything like that.
There is no "asking for your money" here, don't worry :-)
Only the necessary open front door to this site, the so-called "index" file ... at times also a few other web pages ...
are made publicly detectable by the internet "search engines", the "robots", at this moment of writing.
The provider, the web hotel, only registers where on our planet any visitor is entering from, and which different search engines the visitors are using.
No names, no identities are registered and documented, anywhere here, locally, inhouse.
All the Best - Torsten Olafsson, Elsinore, Denmark.
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