On the day I rode my Brompton through Paris, I decided to play the shakuhachi once more in the Tuileries Garden, right next ...

The shakuhachi is difficult. I'm staring intently at the sheet music for "Hatsune"...I am practicing a piece called "Hatsune" ...

You have probably heard this sound before. This is the first thing that shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki tells people who aren’t familiar with his instrument. Maybe you’ve heard the vertical bamboo ...

Riley Lee will never forget the first time he heard the shakuhachi — a Japanese bamboo flute — on a record his brother brought home to Hawaii in the late 1960s. "It was as if some sentient being was ...

Because of a grant from the Center for Asian Studies, I was able to attend Shakuhachi Camp of the Rockies in June of 2019. The camp consisted of lessons, masterclasses, and evening performances of the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Silence in music rarely, if ever, gets much attention. Audiences generally see the stars of the show ...

The shakuhachi has had a troubled existence. In its native Japan, its use has been outlawed and the ability to play it has been used as a way for a traveler to prove he was a visiting monk and not a ...

It took some time to count the stamps on my passports, but it turns out I've averaged one trip to Japan per year for the past decade. While crack-of-dawn sushi at Daiwa's in Tokyo's Tsukiji fish ...