The "Ascetic Shakuhachi" Historical Evidence Research Web Pages

About Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson & This Website

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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, Graphic 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

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This Website is Programmed in Very Simple HTML Coding
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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 "begging 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 some 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.

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Torsten Olafsson's Myōan Taizan-ha 'Shakuhachi' Academy admission certificate, early Fall, 1977.
Signed and confirmed by Hirazumi Taizan, 2nd chief monk of the 1950 revived
Kyōto Myōan Temple, [Yoshimura] 'Fuan' Sōshin, 40th 'Kansu',
and Ozawa Seizan, authorized 'Myōan Taizan-ha Suizen Shakuhachi' teacher.

   

L: Myōan-ji's 40th 'Kansu' Yoshimura 'Fuan' Sōshin, Ozawa Seizan's teacher.
C: Torsten Olafsson, a Taizan-ha student of Ozawa Seizan, early 1978. Photo: Walther Ulrich, Austria.
R: Ozawa Seizan, Taizan-ha 'Suizen' teacher. Photo: Torsten Olafsson, early Summer, 1978.

Total number of website visitors from November 26 through December 3, 2025:
2.916
- according to the hosting web hotel one.com

Asia/China: 588
Europe: 444
W Asia: 433
SE Asia: 356
USA: 334
S America: 254
Africa: 218
C America/Caribbean: 78
Korea/Japan: 77
Canada: 32
Russia: 27
Australia/New Zealand: 25

Weekly Website Visitor Statistics as of September 13-20, 2025,
     by Midnight 12 p.m.: 2.677 Visits

Weekly visitors: 2.677

Top 8 Top Territories:

USA: 763

N. Asia/China/India: 480

Europe: 280

SE Asia: 203

S. America: 161

W. Asia: 71

Korea/Japan: 64

C. America/The Carribian: 61

Weekly Website Visitor Statistics as of June 20-27, 2025,
     by midnight 12 p.m.: 2.728 visits

Weekly visitors: 2.728

Top 5:

ASIA/China: 704

SE Asia: 545

USA: 423

Europe: 252

S. America: 47