>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.
So true, but, alas, the text is not, to my knowledge, available online.
I have a hard copy of the article, but not now in my possession (I'm
in transit, perhaps for a while), but I do have a lengthy and
interesting excerpt that I typed up and will email to any interested
parties:
edosan-at-boulder-dot-net
When I get my hands on the original again, perhaps I can scan it and
distribute the entire monograph.
Regards,
eB
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