Yoshio Kurahashi - Honkyoku. Zen Music for Shakuhachi.

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Music

YOSHIO KURAHASHI is the son of a great Shakuhachi master, Yodo Kurahashi, founder of the Mujuan Shakuhachi School in Kyoto. In 1976, he gave his first recital and won the Grand Prize of the Osaka Cultural Festival. In 1981, he gave his first concert abroad in New York. Since then, he has been pursuing an international career which brought him to Malaysia, China, Israel, Thailand, Singapore, Canada, and the United States. Since 1989, he visits the United States twice a year to teach and give concerts. In 1989, Kurahashi became the president of the Kyoto Sankyoku Association and became the director of the Kyoto Hogaku Ensemble, both groups devoting themselves to the promotion of Japanese classical music.

Art

The Shinto belief that aggrieved human spirits can animate forces of nature underlies the origins of Kyoto’s Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenmangū), dedicated to the scholar-poet and statesman Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), who died in exile after having been slandered by enemies at court. Natural disasters and illnesses plagued the capital after his death, but Michizane’s spirit was pacified when he was honored at a shrine dedicated to the thunder god in northwestern Kyoto. Later, he was deified as Tenjin, an ancient god of agriculture, and came to be venerated as the Shinto god of literature and music. Among the more than thirty extant sets of handscrolls recounting Michizane’s life and the events leading to the establishment of the Tenjin cult, this version is second in age and quality only to the early thirteenth-century version in the main Kitano Tenjin Shrine in Kyoto.

Title: Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine (Kitano Tenjin engi emaki)
Period: Kamakura period (1185–1333)
Date: late 13th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Set of five handscrolls; ink, color, and cut gold on paper

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