At 04:54 PM 1/30/2005, Bill Fletcher wrote:
>Which came first, the ronin samurai ... or the fuke=20
>priests/monks...? Part 2: Were the Komuso the ronin samurai or the=20
>priests/monks...?
Bill: A good source for the history of the shakuhachi is Chris Blasdel's=20
*The Shakuhachi: A Manual for Learning." Part Two of the book is "The=20
History and Development" by Y=FBk=F4 Kamisang=F4, an associate professor of=
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musicology at at the presigious Geidai (Tokyo University of Music and Fine=
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Arts). Her answers to these questions will give you a fuller picture of=20
these relationships and a debunking of the mythology.
See you this summer in Colorado?
Karl
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