Riley Lee began playing the shakuhachi (bamboo flute) in Japan in 1971, studying with Chikuho Sakai until 1980, and has been a student of Katsuya…

Neptune was born in Oakland, California, on November 13, 1951 and moved with his family to San Diego, California when he was two. He played trumpet…

We don't have a wiki here yet...

Katsuya Yokoyama (YOKOYAMA Katsuya 横山勝也; born in Shizuoka, Japan, 1934) is an internationally renowned player and teacher of the shakuhachi, the…

Kohachiro Miyata (Jap.: 宮田耕八朗 Miyata Kohachiro) has been recognized in recent years as one of Japan’s leading players of the shakuhachi. He…

Watazumi Doso (海童道祖) Roshi (1910 - December 14, 1992) was a master of the end-blown Japanese bamboo flute. He studied Rinzai Zen, attaining the…

We don't have a wiki here yet...

For the individual artists see: Satomi Saeki and Alcvin Takegawa Ramos

Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin studied shakuhachi in Kyoto, Japan with Kurahashi Yodo Sensei, who was a disciple of Jin Nyodo. There in 1975, he…

Masayuki Koga / 古賀将之 is a shakuhachi master, founder and director of the Japanese Music Institute.

Hōzan Yamamoto (山本邦山, Yamamoto Hōzan; October 6, 1937 - February 10, 2014 in Ōtsu, Shiga prefecture) was a Japanese shakuhachi player, composer…

Teruhisa Fukuda was born in 1949 in Nagano Prefecture. He studied under Baizan Nakamura, Kohachirii Miyata and started performing in public in…

Marco Lienhard, a native of Switzerland, was a member of the internationally acclaimed taiko group Ondekoza from 1981–1994. While touring as a…

Adrian Freedman (b. 1962) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist specialising in the shaku-hachi, Japanese zen flute. Adrian is a musician of…

Clive Bell is a musician and composer specialising in Far Eastern music. He studied the Shakuhachi (japanese bamboo flute) in Tokyo with the…

We don't have a wiki here yet...

Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (International Cultural Relations Society)

In 1942 a set of sixty 78rpm discs documenting the most authentic traditions in…

"The shakuhachi pronounced ) is a Japanese end-blown flute. It is traditionally made of bamboo, but versions now exist in ABS and hardwoods. It…

We don't have a wiki here yet...

We don't have a wiki here yet...

Shōmyō (声明) is not an artist, but a style of Japanese Buddhist chant, used mainly in the Tendai and Shingon sects. There are two styles:…