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Historical Evidence Research Web Pages - by Danish/Icelandic Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson, Elsinore, North Sealand: Multimusician, composer, music editor, graphics designer, japanologist, shakuhachi historian, writer lecturer">Historical Evidence Research Web Pages - by Danish/Icelandic Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson, Elsinore, North Sealand: Multimusician, composer, music editor, graphics designer, japanologist, shakuhachi historian, writer lecturer">「禅尺八」歴史的証拠の研究ホームページ"Zen Shakuhachi" rekishi-teki sh ko no kenky h mup jiThe Zen Shakuhachi Historical Evidence Research Web PagesIntroduction Guide to the Critical Study and Substantiation of Early Ascetic Shakuhachi in Particular:Historical Chronology, Terminology Etymology of Concepts, Ideology, Iconology PracticesBy Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson トーステン オーラフソン デンマーク Denmark Post-Edo Post-WW2 Period History Sources MattersThe Re-Writing Re-Falsificationof Fuke Shakuhachi Narratives1 - MEIJI PERIOD till the mid-20th CENTURY1868-19451872-1878 (1843-44): The Komus zakkiSource CollectionFrom 1879 ... 1896-1914:The Koji ruien Historical Encyclopedia1880-1899: Tokugawa kinreik - A Source Collectionof Tokugawa Period Laws Regulations1890: Higuchi Taizan - Teaching, the "My an Society",and the Taizan-ha Tradition of Shakuhachi AsceticismEarly to mid-20th Century Research Pioneers,Author Musicians, Editors Publishers, Japan:Mikami Sanji, Kurihara K ta, Uramoto Setch ,Nakatsuka Chikuzen, Mori Hikotar , Tanikita Muchiku,Nishimura Kok , Takahashi K zan, Tomimori Kyozan,Ikeda Juzan a.o.1902: Mikami Sanji's Critical Article'Fuke-sh ni tsuite', "About the Fuke Sect"Unveiling Verifying the Actual Origins Secretsof Ascetic Shakuhachi Traditions, Ideologies PracticesIntroduction Guide to the Critical Study of Early Ascetic Shakuhachi in Particular:Historical Chronology, Terminology Etymology of Concepts, Ideology, Iconology Practices - by Danish/Icelandic Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson, Elsinore, North Sealand: Multimusician, composer, music editor, graphics designer, japanologist, shakuhachi historian, writer lecturerAccording to Yamamoto Morihide who in Ky to in 1795 published the famous book 'Kyotaku denki kokujikai', 虚鐸傳記国字解, this definitely the most fundamental principle underlying the teachings of all the schools of Mahayana Buddhism, including Chinese Ch'an and Japanese Zen, was meant to be calligraphed on the wooden board that was, allegedly, placed on the grave of a deceased 'komus ', 虚無僧, a "Pseudo-Monk of Non-Duality None-ness".Ascetic shakuhachi practice is, simply, nothing but training and freeing yourself to appreciate the Essentially Non-Dual Nature of Ultimate Reality. Historical Materials Like Documents Pictures etc.= Documentary Evidence = Possible "Proof" or Possible "Disproof",or Sometimes Only "Un-Proof" ...i.e In Full Recognition of "The Three Logical States", namely,1) Proven, 2) Disproved or 3) Unproven.During the course of 2020, a major expansion of this website is being prepared, realized and eventually publicized, case by case, step by step, web page by web page.Many hitherto largely unnoticed surviving source texts and essential quotations are now continuously being added to this site, not least dating from the middle years of the 1600s, the time when the so called 'komus ', 虚無僧, the "Pseudo-monks of the Non-Dual None-ness", made their actual very first appearances in Japan.Do note, that this website and the research project being illuminated here is presenting textual and pictorial documentary evidence ("facts") while, not least:Debunking plain fiction, mere speculation, romantic wishful thinking, and utter non-truth.Remember: We can only "know" and should only publicly share information that can be convincingly evidenced and proven, disproved - or un-proven - from truthfully and honestly presented, logically analyzed, and credible surviving source materials.So, for any claim mere postulation that anyone may make and share regarding shakuhachi history, ideology and practices in general - and shakuhachi asceticism in particular:Show us your proof, the absolutely irrefutable textual and pictorial evidence of yours - if any such really exists?Cheers Torsten Mukuteki Olafsson, DenmarkProf. YOSHIDA MITSUKUNI, 吉田光邦, stating in a private conversation in March, 1977:- Yoshida Mitsukuni, 1921-1991:Since 1977 a highly esteemed professor of Science Technology at Ky to University who also wrote outstanding books and artcles on Japanese Arts and Aesthetics.Quoted from a private communication in Spring, 1977On this website and in this research project we are investigating and exposing the UTTER NON-ZEN-se in traditional komus shakuhachi music "historianship" - those are the serious issues and proper questions to be truly honestly addressed and most soberly replied to ...Non-Dual Un-Born No Hole Flute Ascetic Practice Bamboo Flute Breathing ContemplationNirvana is a state of nonduality (Advaita or Advaya);a state where the illusion of a false sense of "I" (Parikalpita Swabhava, Fen-bie-xing – in Chinese) does not exist. Expressed differently, liberation from the illusion of separatenessof the individual Self from the Whole is Nirvana.Freedom is, Nirvana is, Truth is. Dr. Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya, 2019Latest update as of October 24, 2020 - important additions re the terms'kisoku shugy ' (1818), 'suichiku shugy ' (1852), 'sui-sh -zen' (1930),and - 'suizen' (1950):Latest updates as of June 27, 2020:The monumental Meiji Period encyclopedia Koji ruienand its biased and deceptive selection of sources about 'Fuke-sh ' and 'Shakuhachi'Who was the very first so called 'komus ',- Pseudo-Monk of the Non-Dual None-ness"?Did you know that some, many, maybe even all of the so called Edo Period"komus temples" were in fact "professional bath house temples"?Do you really - seriously - believe that all Edo Period'komus ' were "Rinzai Zen Buddhist Devotees"- and: even "Rinzai Zen Buddhist Priests"?- How could that in any logical way have been the case? Show us the evidence, please ...Was the so called 'Fuke Sh mon', "Fuke Sect Religious Denomination", everin any way a true, genuine "Sect of Rinzai Zen Buddhism"?The history of the komus and the so called "Fuke Shakuhachi Tradition" is first of alla deliberately deceptive pseudo-historical narrative of continuous fabrication and very purposeful falsification of alleged "written evidence", from the very Beginnings till the very Present.'Komos ' "mat monk" in 'Sanj ni-ban shokunin uta-awase emaki'.Date of original: 1494. K setsu-bon edition, detail.Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo.Source: Wikipedia, Japan.Details from the 'Ry mon bunko no Setsuy sh 'Here, for the first time in "recorded history", we see the two characters for the 9th century Chinese Ch'an/Zen monk 'Fuke' to be pronounced as 'Fuke'+'s ', 僧, "Fuke monk",and presented as being synonymous with 'komo-s ', 僧, "Mat monk".Library of Nara Women's UniversityMid-1500s - precise date unclear'Komos ' playing a short 'hitoyogiri' flute in a streetDetail of section 4 of the folding screen'Tsukinami f zoku-zu by bu'"Screen with Genre Scenes of the Twelve Months"Anonymous, late Muromachi Period (2nd half of 16th century).Source: Tokyo National MuseumEarly Edo/Kan'ei Period before 1630:Painting of a Parasol-maker Two Fuke-komos by Iwasa Matabei, 1578-1650.An "important work of art" dating from the early Edo Period,17th century, before 1630.Official however highly questionable museological title of the work:'Kasa-hari komus -zu',"Picture of an Umbrella Maker Komus ".Source: The Nezu Art Museum, T ky .Era of the Edo Period Pseudo-Monks of the Non-Dual None-ness :1628? (or c. 1640?) to November 30, 18711658:KY WARABE by NAKAGAWA KIUNTwo wandering vertical flute players in a Ky to streetPossible very early Edo Period 'komus ' - Pseudo-Monks of the Non-Dual None-ness ?In: the 'Ky warabe' by Nakagawa KiunThe Remembering the Capital Archive, Ky toSource URL: Frame 13 in Volume 4 of the 'Ky warabe'.Source: The Remembering the Capital Archive, Ky to.Two 'komus ' playing, thin vertical flutes.In: 'Ukiyo monogatari', 1661 or 1665 - Maki/Vol. 4, Story 3.By Asai Ry i.Source: Exact original version unknown.Two 'komus ' playing long, thick root-end shakuhachi flutes.In: 'Jinrin kinm zu-i', 1690 - Maki/Vol. 2.By Makieshi Genzabur Atsuo Masamune.Source: The Ky to University Library.Woodcut print of a 'komus ' receiving alms.In: 'Yamato meisho zue', "Pictures from Famous Places in Japan".Illustration by Takehara Shinkei, 1791.Source: The National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ethnography, Copenhagen.Photo reproduction by John Lee.Wood cut print of a 'komus ' by Katsushika Hokusai, 1760-1849.No. 53, 'Kusatsu', in: 'T kaid goj san tsugi',"53 Stations of the T kaid ", 1806 edition.Source: www.hokusai-katsushika.org Japanischer Bettler als Klarinettbl ser . A Japanese Beggar as Clarinet Player .Komus in Gustav A. Spie , 1864, page 201.This is but the second oldest known Western picture of a performing shakuhachi-playing beggar lay monk. It was printed from an engraving based on an original photograph taken in 1861 somewhere in Nagasaki in SW Japan by either August Sachtler or John Wilson during the visit there of the official Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860-61.Source: Gustav A. Spieß, 1864.Early My an Society komus by an unknown photographer. Possibly around 1900.Source: flickr.com.Early 1900s:Hand-coloured 'My an Ky kai Komus ' photograph by Nobukuni Enami, early 1900s.Sources: io9.gizmodo.com pinterest.com.Era of the "new" Ky to My an Temple "Pseudo-Monks of the Non-Dual Noneness":1950 to the PresentPossibly 1960s-1970s?:A "modern" My an komus at the Himeji Castle Festival in Hy go Prefecture, August 1, 2009.Source: Wikimedia Commons.Well now, then ... Who actually were those quite mysterious komus , 虚無僧, the "Semi Monks of the Non-Dual *) None-ness" **) and their predecessors, their "forerunners", the komo-s ,薦僧, the so called "Mat Monks"?[ *) or, "of Non-Substantiality" - **) or, "Egolessness")What do the many surviving written Japanese source documents and plentiful pictorial evidence de facto clarify to us about 'Komos Shakuhachi', 'Fuke-komos Shakuhachi','Komus Shakuhachi', 'Fuke Shakuhachi', 'Zen Shakuhachi', 'Honkyoku' "music"- and 'Suizen' - probable origins and actual ideology, in particular?That is what the present "Zen Shakuhachi Reality Research Web Pages" are also a lot about.Please enjoy The Very Best Wishes Torsten 無穴笛 Olafsson - Helsing r/Elsinore, North Sealand, DenmarkNext question, however: Who were those so called komus who, allegedly, actually created the 150+ famous and so much celebrated honkyoku pieces of ascetic shakuhachi flute "music" that have been preserved till today? That is still a mystery, in actual fact ...Overall conclusion that has manifested itselfas a result of the present research projectThe asserted history and alleged characteristics of Ascetic Shakuhachi Practices in Japan have been most purposefully "constructed" since the very early beginnings.This more or less constantly ongoing activity of deliberate source falsification, forging and fanciful myth fabrication is taking place still, this very day - generated by professionals and amateurs alike, inside as well as outside of Japan - be they both shakuhachi musicians and players, musicologists and history writers, book editors and publishers - beside a wide variety of enough so sincerely devoted shakuhachi "admirers" in general.Very little indeed of what you can find and read in most of the books and articles, in phonogram cover notes and on the internet - be that on websites or weblogs presented in a variety of languages - can actually be soberly corroborated when first one is investigating the totality of known, preserved text and picture source materials etc. - the multitude, comprehensiveness and complexity of which is not only aweinspiring but truly terrifying.The old, worn Ky to My an-ji gate - disassembled sometime after 1871 - can be seen and appreciated within the precincts of the Y z Nenbutsu sect's mother temple Dainenbutsu-ji, 大念仏寺, in Hirano-ku, saka:The most important - some might think: Controversial, heretic, provocative, maybe even somehow insulting? findings and conclusions at the present time of writing are the following: There existed nothing like an "established Zen shakuhachi tradition" during the Japanese Middle Ages, the Muromachi Period, nor before that time, for that matter. Nothing, no one, nor any "group", such as specifically a so called "Fuke Sect", Fuke-sh , 普化宗, was "officially approved" in 1677-1678.In fact, that never happened, even later. Period The earliest possibly reliable written evidence of anything like a "Fuke Sect", Fuke-sh , 普化宗, is dated 1687 - produced by the Edo temple Reih -ji, That particular document, in the version of it that has been preserved till today, however, may well have been somehow "falsified" in that respect / to that "effect" at a later date, by its editors. The so called Fuke-sh - if ever it might have existed and functioned in some form of capacity as a "unified, top-down organized religious congregation" on a nation-wide basis at all - it was definitely neer "a genuine sect of Rinzai Zen Buddhism". There are no surviving documents or other evidence at all that can be seen to support such a belief or even claim.The only "temple" that appears to have enjoyed if only some however limited degree of "connection" with the established Rinzai Sect organization was the My an Temple in Eastern Ky to - see entries 1703 1705.None of the early extant My an Temple documents mention any Fuke-sh at all in their contents. In fact, dated even as late as 1752, a very central and comprehensive My an Temple document refers to the "congregation" as Komus sh mon, 虚無僧宗門, i.e. "Komus Sect / Creed / Doctrine" - not Fuke-sh , or Fuke-sh mon. The oldest convincingly dated existing pictorial representation of a typical long and heavy root-end bamboo flute of the komus is dated 1690. The earliest written mention of the term honkyoku, is dated 1694 - in the oldest reliable Ky to My an Temple document, that we know of. The earliest fully trustworthy reference to actual honkyoku music piece titles is dated as "late" as 1732. The term sui-zen, was not known and used in Japan before 1950. The terms zen shakuhachi, 禅尺八, and shakuhachi zen, 尺八禅, were not "invented" and spread in the world before the 1970s, at the earliest.On the European Shakuhachi Society founder and chair person Kiku Day's kind invitation,Danish/Icelandic Torsten Olafsson designed and presented a "Zen Shakuhachi Reality Research Pix Quotes Exhibition"for the ESS Summer School Vejle 2017 event ...Kiku Day who is now a longtime permanent resident of beautiful rural Mid-Western Denmark has been a dear and respected friend of mine for many years.With her superb PhD degree in Ethnomusicology from SOAS in London, Kiku took the courageous steps and necessary initiatives to establish the European Shakuhachi Society while still acting prominently in the capacity as that very important community's most energetically event-making, inspirational chairperson. Read much more here on Kiku's personal homepageI was enthusiastically assisting and supporting Kiku Day in preparing for the succesful ESS Summer School 2017 that took place in Vejle, Jutland, Denmark.In 2003, Mr. Monty H. Levenson of Tai Hei Shakuhachi in Willits, N. California, USA, generously printed and published my Kaid honsoku,海道本則, MA thesis (1987) - still available from www.shakuhachi.com.You may click in the photos to study a presentation of the publication:Mr. Ronald Nelson, president of the International Shakuhachi Society (ISS, at www.komuso.com) has supplied to me both numerous scannings of essential rare Japanese texts and, not least, most valuable photos of his taken in the "Komus Room" of the Matsudo City Museum in NW Chiba and at the Tokyo National Museum.Please do visit the outstanding art photographer's no less than breathtakingly amazing picture website and appreciate his numerous photos from the trips of his all over East and South Asia - and elsewhere:Link to the "Ronald Nelson Photography" homepagePhoto: Japanese t rii gate. Source: Ronald Nelson's personal Facebook page.Mr. Kishi Kiyokazu, 貴志清一, Japan, has contributed prominently with so far two very important historical Fuke Shakuhachi texts/documents generously made readable here in modern Japanese, transcribed from the Kanbun and classical Japanese originals, respectively.Link to 尺八吹奏研究会HP - The Shakuhachi Performance Research Society HomePage edited by Kishi KiyokazuLinks to recent 2016 updates on the homepage can be found page bottom on this newly updated web page:Link to The January 11, 1678 Komus -ha Oboe-gaki web pageKishi Kiyokazu's fine work on Hisamatsu Fuy 's Hitori mond dated 1823 can be appreciated here:Link to the 1823 Hitori mond webpage"Mukuteki suizen"無孔笛吹禅Signed byMy an Taizan(No date)

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