Hon Shirabe 本調 (in a cave)

Recorded in Tom's cabin (cave). The background noise is boats on Sydney Harbour, including a speedboat thumping across the waves!

This piece is Hon Shirabe (本調) for shakuhachi (bamboo Japanese flute). It is one of the traditional honkyoku Koten pieces from the Dokyoku school, via the lineage of Watazumi-do. www.komuso.com says of this piece: ""Honshirabe" literally means 'basic melody'. The technical and mental approaches to this piece represent the basic building blocks of shakuhachi honkyoku. It is said that some monks played this song their entire lives as part of a Buddhist training aimed at squeezing everything possible out of it and themselves. Of course, this does not mean that they were continually playing, but, more significantly, that they were 'living' shakuhachi as a spiritual discipline." [from Taniguchi Yoshinobu's program notes]. As a basic skeleton, this piece is closely related to Honte Choshi in the Chikuho lineage.

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