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My original research into shakuhachi and traditional Japanese music, together with translations, historical materials, and contextual writings that surround and inform the work.

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Entanglement in One Sound: Fine Pitch Intonation on the Shakuhachi

Meri notes in the region of C5

Aoki Reibo II in Two Voices

On tradition, teaching, and changing times

Good Tone, Bad Translation: What Hisamatsu Fūyō Actually Wrote

How a translation reshapes Hisamatsu’s philosophy of practice in Hitori Kotoba

What puts the hon in honkyoku?

Neither authorised, nor arbitrary.

Ornamentation: how much is too much?

What we can and cannot say about musical style and taste

Shōga and embodied practice in Yokoyama's teaching

Body, breath, and sound

Practicing hōgaku. Doggedly.

Beaten into submission.