Sanya (dokyoku/Buddhist) - Cornelius Boots - Taimu (bass) Zen Shakuhachi Flute

Live at the Forte House in San Francisco August 9, 2014. Performed by Cornelius 深禅 (Shinzen) Boots on a jinashi Taimu shakuhachi crafted by Ken Mujitsu LaCosse. This piece is from the honkyoku (“classical“) repertoire of the shakuhachi, a Zen flute used for breath awareness and cultivation of nature music and chant for over 1000 years in Japan. This version (“Three Valleys“) is from the dokyoku lineage, roughly based on renditions of Watazumi and continued on by Katsuya Yokoyama, Yoshinobu Taniguchi