Ah, I for one could really benefit from a discussion of these general
aesthetic concepts, like SHIBUI and HADE .... could someone please explain
(with examples?) thanks!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandra and Alcvin Ramos [mailto:ramos@telus.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:30 AM
> To: shakuhachi@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Shi bui and Fukizome
>
>
> Great discussions!
>
> I agreed with Peter Ross's post about tone color and material earlier
> on. Very nicely put. But I believe Peter meant to say "Shibui" not
> "Shabui". (I don't think "shabui" even has a meaning in Japanese.)
> However, this term contains many other nuances not only "getting old",
> although they are cetainly associated with it, eg. earthy,
> asymmetrical, simple, unpretentious, conatmination, crude, natural
> process, ambiguous, dim, expansion of sensory information, ephemeral,
> just to name a few. It can also be used in Japan to degrade (someone
> depending on the context) or praise someone or something. Thanks for the
> post, Peter!
>
> I think a lot of teachers in Japan do a kind of fukizome, although I've
> never heard it referred to it as that. My sensei in Japan just recently
> had a recital for his student to start the year off, and I do a shugyou
> on the first day of the year as well as hold a concert. My other mentor,
> when he was training shakuhachi in Japan in Kyoto, used to go every year
> on January 3, with his shakuhachi group to the local temple (Yasaka
> jinja) and play pieces in front of the shrine. And of course they had a
> party afterwards! I'll ask him if he called that practice "fukizome".
>
> Alcvin
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> "So in that sound you have to put in your balls, your strength and your
> own specialness. And what you are putting in then is your own Life and
> your own Life Force."
> ---Watazumi-do
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