Issac,
> You answered the 5 but you still have 4 more
> to go.
Then let me take a shot at # 3:
> How many shakuhachi players in Japan will take a
> maker seriously who is capable of making a
> shakuhachi for multiple players or Ryu?
My answer is 23.
But it's complicated by some facts. Other than America, Japan is the country
source of the largest number of visitors to my site. And I don't think
they're coming to learn about traditional things. I'm pretty sure it isn't
Tom Deaver logging on a thousand times a day. The personal email I get from
Japan are from people curious and interested in the shakuhachi. The content
of this email leads me to believe that there is a hunger for something more
than mythical/mystical explanations. My Japan volume has been strong and
remains strong almost from the beginning. It's the Japanese response that
keeps my site going and growing way more than anything else. The picture I
get from my site statistics is different than the one presupposed by your
question.
I don't know what to make of it all, other than things might not be as cut
and dried as you think. I'm not terribly surprised by the traffic from
Japan, after all we are talking about the shakuhachi.
I also get a significant chunk of volume from Hong Kong and also
Singapore--which is a little more surprising.
But it's the consistent, month in and month out, traffic from Saudi Arabia
that has me puzzled.
So in answer to your third question, I don't know and don't really
care--what's it matter how many shakuhachi players in Japan do/think this,
that or something else? The world is a big place and people have a lot of
interests, passions and things which occupy them. Who am I to judge?
As far as your remaining three questions--who cares? I don't, if you do,
fine.
Nelson
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