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Zen Priest Playing the Shakuhachi
Get your Zen here with a Zen Buddhist Priest known as a Komuso playing the Shakuhachi while the world drifts by in a hurried haze. The music is actually superimposed as the original music was difficult to pick out of the noise of the city.
Komuso were Zen Buddhist Priests who used to travel about playing the Shakuhachi (Japanese Flute) for meditation and alms. Komuso means "Priest of Nothingness."
I encountered this Komuso while I was in Nagoya. Komuso ceased to exist from the late 19th Century onwards.
The titles are bits of Zen sayings from samurai and Zen Masters. The subtitles tell the tale of the Komuso and their ultimate fate.
Get your Zen here with a Zen Buddhist Priest known as a Komuso playing the Shakuhachi while the world drifts by in a hurried haze. The... more -
Chance Encounter with a Komuso Zen Priest - A Vision from Japan's Past
While in the city of Nagoya, I happened upon a fellow dressed up as Zen Buddhist priest/monk from olden days playing the Shakuhachi - Japanese bamboo flute. I did some digging into the past of this strange apparition to discover where these Komuso, as they were known, had come from and what had happened to them. While in the city of Nagoya, I happened upon a fellow dressed up as Zen Buddhist priest/monk from olden days playing the Shakuhachi - ... more
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