>From shakuhachi-request@communication.ucsd.edu Sun Jan 30 13:55:01
2005
>
>Which came first, the ronin samurai who played shakuhachi in order
>get a "free pass" to travel around Japan or the fuke priests/monks
>from various temples who used the shakuhachi as part of their
>meditation and their service to the people in their area?
>
>Were the Komuso the ronin samurai or the priests/monks
Bill,
Another excellent source on the history of the Komuso and the Fuke
sect is:
"Shakuhachi Zen: The Fukeshu and Komuso"
James H. Sanford
in *Monumenta Nipponica: Studies in Japanese Culture*,
Volume XXXII, Number 4, Winter 1977, pp.411-440
Sanford was, at the time, Assistant Professor of Religion at UNC
Chapel Hill, and the scholarship of the article is impressive.
Anyone interested in the history of the shakuhachi will find this
worth the trouble of digging up.
bj
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