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The Three Most Distinctive Periods in 'Komosō' to 'Komusō' History
and Japan's Earliest Shakuhachi Asceticism Reality
Mid-16th century - Early 1600s - 1665
1 - 1549 to 1639-40 - The Christian Century:
In 1549, Spanish-born, Basque Jesuit Catholic missionary Francis Xavier (Franciscus de Xabier),
1506-1552, landed in Japan and began to preach and convert the local population to Christianity,
numbering into hundreds of thousands of sincere adherents over the following half century and more.
In 1639, all foreigners, missionaries and merchants alike (except the Protestant Christian Dutch traders in Nagasaki),
were expelled from Japan and forbidden re-entry.
Read more here:
1549 ... The Catholic Christian Century in Japan
& the Temple Patron Household System
2 - 1614 to 1664 - From 'Komosō' to 'Komusō':
In 1614, the first account of a 'Rōnin Fuke-Komosō' "mat monk" carrying a sword and a shakuhachi is described in print.
In 1664, 50 years later, shakuhachi-playing 'Komu-sō', "monks of the non-dual & none-ness", are described in writing, and pictured,
however now not armed with any swords, nor any bed rolls on their backs.
Something really significant appears to have happened back then, especially in that period of time!
Read more here:
1614: The Keichō kenmon-shū Short Story Book:
The 'Fuke-Komosō' in Hachiōji, West of Edo City
1664: The Shichiku shoshinshū Music Treatise
by Nakamura Sōsan. The First 'Komusō'
'Shakuhachi-Rōnin' Ever Witnessed in Kyōto?
1614 to 1664: From 'Ko-MO-sō' to 'Ko-MU-sō'
When That Actually Happened - The Broader Context
Essential Documentary Evidence Observed
3 - 1628 through 1646 - The Fraudulent "Steal" of Shinchi Kakushin's Identity:
Between 1628 and 1646, at the latest, 'Komosō' "morphed" into 'Komusō',
while an entirely new pseudo-Buddhistic - alleged "Zen Shakuhachi" - sect was fabricated completely out of whole cloth,
with no basis in any credibly "documented history" at all, whatsoever.
Read more here:
1628: The Kaidō honsoku Fuke-komosō Credo Version 1
1646 at the latest: Abbot Isshi Bunshu's Letter to
"a Proto-Komusō" named Sandō Mugetsu
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