The "Ascetic Shakuhachi" Historical Evidence Research Web Pages

Wave - or particle?

Detail of Zen sand garden
at Daisen-in, Daitoku-ji, Kyōto
'Standing waves' ...
Early 16th century
Photo: T.O.

Literature in Western Languages

A:

Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen. Original edition.
     Center for Taoist Thought and Fellowship, 1992.

Carl Abbott: Blowing Zen - One Breath, One Mind II.
     Revised expanded edition; includes Blowing Zen II.
     Center for Taoist Thought and Fellowship, 2012.

Mikael S. Adolphson: The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers,
     and Warriors in Premodern Japan.
     University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2000.

Christoph Anderl: Studies in the Language of Zǔ-táng jí, Volume One.
     Dr. Art. dissertation, University of Oslo, Norway, 2004.
     In: Acta Humaniora, 213, Universiteit Gent, 2004.
     Download link: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2099435/file/3085620.pdf

Christoph Anderl: Studies in the Language of Zǔ-táng jí, Volume Two.
     Dr. Art. dissertation, University of Oslo, Norway, 2004.
     In: Acta Humaniora, 213, Universiteit Gent, 2004.
     Download link: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/2099435/file/3085619.pdf

Masaharu Anesaki: History of Japanese Religion:
     with special reference to the social and moral life of the nation
     Rutland, Vt.: C.E. Tuttle Co., 1963

Masaharu Anesaki: "Prosecutions of Kirishitans after the Shimabara Insurrection".
     In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 1, No. 2 (July, 1938), pp. 293-300 (8 pages)
     Link to online PDF file:
     https://www.jstor.org/stable/2382669?seq=1

Peter Judd Arnesen: The Medieval Japanese Daimyo.
     Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1979

Sonja Arntzen, translator: Ikkyū and the Crazy cloud anthology,
     a Zen poet of Medieval Japan. Foreword by Shūichi Katō.
     University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1986.

James H. Austin: Zen and the Brain:
     Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness.
     MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998.


B:

Helen Josephine Baroni: Ōbaku Zen. The Emergence of the Third
     Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan.
     University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2000.

Helen Josephine Baroni: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Zen Buddhism.
     The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., New York, 2002.

George M. Beckman: The Making of the Meiji Restoration.
     The Oligarchs and the Constitutional Development of Japan, 1868-1891.
     University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, 1957.

Robert Neelly Bellah: Tokugawa religion: The cultural roots of modern Japan.
     Free Press, 1985.

Nick Bellando & Bruno Deschênes: "The Role of Tone-colour in Japanese Shakuhachi Music."
     Ethnomusicology Review 22(1), 2023.
     Link: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/22/piece/1036

Nick Bellando: "Shakuhachi History: Hitoyogiri: Samurai and Monkey Bones."
     In: European Shakuhachi Society Newsletter
     – Spring/Summer 2021, pp. 44-47.
     Link: http://files.shakuhachisociety.eu/publications/newsletters/ESS-Newsletter-Spring-Summer2021-finalDP-published.pdf

Donald Paul Berger: "The Shakuhachi and the Kinko Ryū Notation."
     In: Asian Music, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn, pp. 32-72.
     Texas University Press, 1969.
     Links: https://doi.org/10.2307/833910
     https://www.jstor.org/stable/833910

Donald Paul Berger & David W. Hughes: "Shakuhachi".
     Pages 532 to 534 in: S. Stanley & J. Tyrrell (editors):
     The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Vol. 9: "Iacobus to Kerman: Japan."
     Macmillan Publishers, London, 2001.

Bob Berlin-Grous & Monty H. Levenson: The Sound of Bamboo:
     Blowing Zen & The Spirit of Shakuhachi.
     Tai Hei shakuhachi, Willits, CA, USA, 2019.

Dominique Bertrand: Le corps du souffle: Voyage au coeur du son Broché.
     Editions Signatura, 2019.

Nancy Moore Bess: Bamboo in Japan.
     Kodansha Publishing, Tokyo, 2001.

Dr. Amartya Kumar Bhattacharya: "Dhyana (Meditation): Theory and Practice."
     Publ. online in 2019 on https://dramartyakumarbhattacharya.wordpress.com.
     Link URL: https://dramartyakumarbhattacharya.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/dhyana-meditation-theory-and-practice/

Steen Bille: Corvetten Galathea's Reise omkring Jorden 1845, 46 og 47. Anden Deel,
     Forlagt af Universitetsboghandler C.A. Reítzel,
     Kjöbenhavn, 1850.

Martina Binnig: Die Honkyoku in der Traditionslinie von Itchōken.
     Zum Repertoire des Shakuhachi-Tempels in Fukuoka/Japan.
     Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Musikwissenschaft (M.A.)
     Masterarbeit (M.A.) dated and submitted September 28, 2017.

Karen E. Bjerre: 'The Denmark-Japan Society's First 50 Years.'
     In the 50th anniversary book Dansk-Japansk Selskab 1958-2008,
     Dansk-Japansk Selskab, Copenhagen, 2009.

Christopher Blasdel: Thesis title???
     MFA thesis in Ethnomusicology.
     Tokyo University of Fine Arts, 1982.

Christopher Blasdel: 'Snapshot: Syakuhati "Walking on its own"'.
     The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 7, pp. 707-709.
     Publ. by Routledge, 2002.

Christopher Blasdel: A Shakuhachi Odyssey. The Single Tone:
     A Personal Journey into Shakuhachi Music.
     Printed Matter Press: Tokyo, 2005.

Christopher Blasdel: "Shakuhachi fantasy and fact."
     In: C. Blasdel, The single tone: A personal journey into shakuhachi music.
     Kindle version by Single Tone Productions, pp. 33-47.

Christopher Blasdel: "The Shakuhachi: Aesthetics of a Single Tone."
     In: Japan Quarterly 31, pp. 214-217, 1984.
     Also published in Asahi Shinbun, April-June, Tokyo, 1984.      Link to a PDF online file:
     http://shakuhachi.wdfiles.com/local--files/nav%3Aside/Blasdel.pdf

Christopher Blasdel: The Single Tone:
     A Personal Journey into Shakuhachi Music.
     Kindle version by Single Tone Productions.
     https://www.amazon.com/Single-Tone-Personal-Journey-Shakuhachi-ebook/dp/B08QGBDSR1/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2CKQVH15YYAE1&keywords=blasdel+the+single+tone&qid=1690885457&sprefix=blasdel+the+single+tone%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-2

Christopher Blasdel: The Single Tone:
     A Personal Journey into Shakuhachi Music.
     Kindle version by Single Tone Productions.
     The Single Tone; 4th edition (March 28, 2024)
     https://www.amazon.com/Shakuhachi-Learning-Christopher-Yohmei-Blasdel-ebook/dp/B0CW1F5HXQ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=YNGUJJJZS77G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.f1oR9GHWv0Pp3ZFGseP85bdPMxrComQloeg3CcdbsPs._cy_XyX80D3A7I_ldwwJSP65_CfejxvSk828AQ12KSM&dib_tag=se&keywords=christopher%20yohmei%20blasdel&qid=1711826669&s=digital-text&sprefix=%2Cdigital-text%2C161&sr=1-2&fbclid=IwAR3t2SO10bOJFBmpGf2fG53RVngm-Bvvst1wc7lHnJjIYz-lkOVkrymOSGA_aem_AU0PPs8_8_jmlWNM7JnT4h0qabwgV8qu0stqjRvo5ht-KG_1gBBkEk1bNkGomvdiaxCmEtCfg6f4GZsmJ0sLqBd

Christopher Blasdel interviewed by Anonymous: "The Sound of Zen".
     In: THE NATION, Thailand’s premier English Language Newspaper.
     Interview with Christopher Yohmei Blasdel. Publ. on Feb. 8, 1999
     Link: http://www.yohmei.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Sound-of-Zen.pdf

Christopher Blasdel, editor/translator: "Part II: History & Development."
     In: The Shakuhachi. A Manual for Learning, pp. 69-133.
     Translated and adapted from Kamisangō Yūkō: 'Suizen', 1974.

Christopher Blasdel & Kamisangō Yūkō:
     The Shakuhachi. A Manual for Learning.
     As translated & edited by
     Christopher Yohmei Blasdel.
     Tokyo, 1988; reprinted in 2008.
     Available at www.shakuhachi.com.

R.H. Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 1: General Introduction.
     From the Upanishads to Huineng. The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1960.

R.H. Blyth: Zen and Zen Classics, Vol. 4: Mumonkan.
     The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1966, 1974.

Gunhild Borggren, Joan Hornby, Karen Ejersbo-Iversen & Lilli Krarup Edl, editors.
     50th anniversay book published by Dansk-Japansk Selskab, Copenhagen, 2009.

Jørn Borup: Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism. Myōshinji, a living religion.
     Numen Book Series, Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2008.

C.R. Boxer: The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650.
     Carcarnet Press Limited, Manchester, 1993.
     First published in 1951 by The University of
     California Press & the Cambridge University Press.
     Link to online PDF file: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2509463

William Bramsen: Japanese Chronological Tables.
     Printed at the "Seishi Bunsha" office, Tokyo, 1880.

Christopher Brickell, editor: Encyclopedia of Garden Plants:
     The American HorticulturalSociety.
     Macmillan, New York, 1990.

Christopher Brickell, editor-in-chief: The Royal Horticultural Society
     A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants. Dorling Kindersley,
     London, New York, Stuttgart, Moscow, 1996.

Ray Brooks: Blowing Zen: Finding an Authentic Life.
     Revised & Expanded Edition.
     Sentient Publications, LLC, Boulder, Colorado, 2011.

John S. Brownlee: Japanese Historians and the National Myths, 1600-1945.
     The Age of the Gods and Emperor Jinmu.
     UBC Press, Vancouver & University of Tokyo Press, 1997.

David D. Buck: "Three Han Dynasty Tombs at Ma-Wang-Tui."
     In: World Archaeology, Vol. 7, No. 1, Burial (Jun., 1975),
     pp. 30-45. Published by Taylor & Francis, Ltd.


C:

John Cage: Silence - Lectures and Writings.
     Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticutt, 1961, 1971.

Schuyler van R. Cammann: 'Types of Symbols in Chinese Art.'
     In: The American Anthropologist, 'Studies in Chinese Thought',
     Vol. 55, No. 55, Part 2, 1953.

Edmund Capon and William MacQuitty: Princess of Jade.
     Cardinal/Sphere Book, London, 1973.

Steven D. Carter: 'Chats with the Master: Selections from "Kenzai zōdan".'
     In: Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 295-347.

Steven Casano: "From Fuke Shuu to Uduboo: The Transnational Flow of the Shakuhachi to the West."
     In: The World of Music, Vol. 47, No. 3,
     The Music of "Others" in the Western World, 2005, pp. 17-33.
     Publ. by VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung
     Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41700005?seq=1

Wing-tsit Chan: The Platform Scripture. The Basic Classic of Zen Buddhism.
     St. John's University Press, New York, 1963, 1975.

Cheng Te-k'un: 'Yin-Yang Wu-hsing and Han Art'.
     In: Harvard Journal of Asian Studies 20, 1-2, 1957.

Michael Church, editor: The Other Classical Musics, Fifteen Great Traditions.
     Boydell Press/Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 2016.
     Chapter 3 on pages 74-103: "Japan", by David W. Hughes.
     On pages 84-87: "The shakuhachi and its music."

Hubert S.J. Cieslik: 'The Great Martyrdom in Edo, 1623.'
     In: Monumenta Nipponica X, 1954, pp. 1-44.
     Link to online PDF file: http://pweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/britto/xavier/cieslik/cie_greatmartyrdom.pdf

Jonathan Clements: Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion.
     Published by Robinson, London, 2016.

Martin Collcutt: Five Mountains. The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution
     in Medieval Japan.
     Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) and London, 1981.

Michael S.J. Cooper: They Came to Japan. An Anthology of European Reports
     on Japan, 1543-1640.
     University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, 1965.

Jean Crasset: The History of the Church of Japan.
     Written originally in French by Monsieur L'Abbe de T.
     and now translated into English by N.N. 2 volumes, 2010.
     Originally published in 1705-1707.

Peter Crossley-Holland: 'Non-Western Music.'
     In: The Pelican History of Music I: Ancient Forms to Polyphony: Japan.
     Pelican Books, Harmondsworth, 1975, pp. 60-69.


D:

Peter N. Dale: The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness.
     First publ. by Croom Helm Ltd., 1986.
     Reprinted by Routledge, London, 1988.

Dansk-Japansk Selskab 1958-2008. 50th anniversary celebration book.
     Edited by Gunhild Borggren, Joan Hornby,
     Karen Ejersbo-Iversen & Lilli Krarup Edl.
     Published by Dansk-Japansk Selskab, Copenhagen, 2009.

Kiku Day & Asger Bosendal Christensen: "Mere end et instrument".
     In English: "More than an Instrument".
     Published on the internet on July 10, 2023, by Resonator.dk
     Link to article/interview: https://www.resonator.dk/alle-medier/kikushaku?fbclid=IwAR23R2tUKIPOFBptysCLKVLM1K06ANmABCgZPJIQqcB05vXc9TsskIg38Jo
     Link to Youtube video: https://www.resonator.dk/alle-medier/kikushaku?fbclid=IwAR23R2tUKIPOFBptysCLKVLM1K06ANmABCgZPJIQqcB05vXc9TsskIg38Jo


Kiku Day: 'Mindful playing: a practice research investigation into shakuhachi playing and meditation'.
     Article in Ethnomusicology Forum, 31.1, pages 143-159, February 8, 2002.
     Direct links, URLs: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17411912.2021.2025121
     https://core.ac.uk/download/491117274.pdf

Kiku Day: 'Place and Locality in Fuke-Style Shakuhachi: The Case of Nezasa-ha Kinpūryū.'
     Chapter 13 in: Presence Through Sound: Music and Place in East Asia.
     Edited By Keith Howard & Catherine Ingram.
     Farnham: Ashgate, Routledge, 2020.

Kiku Day: Remembrance of Things Past: Creating a repertoire
     for the archaic jinashi shakuhachi.
     PhD from SOAS, University of London, 2010.

Kiku Day: 'Takemitsu Tōru's November Steps: Bringing 'East' and 'West'
     together or Auto-Exoticism?'
     In: Exploring East Asia: Selected Conference Papers,
     Durham East Asian Papers 19, pp. 62-79, Durham, 2005.

Kiku Day: 'The Changes in the Construction of the Jinashi Shakuhachi
     in the late 20th and early 21st Century.'
     In: European Shakuhachi Society Journal, July 1, 2011.

Kiku Day: 'The Effect of Meiji Government Policy on Traditional
     Japanese Music: The case of the shakuhachi.'
     In: 'Nineteenth Century Music Review', Cambridge,
     Volume 10, Issue 02, pp. 265-292,
     Cambridge University Press, December 2013.
     Link to online PDF file: http://www.kikuday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/NCMR_MeijiEffectShakuhachi.pdf

Kiku Day: "Zen Buddhism and Music: Spiritual Shakuhachi Tours to Japan."
     Chapter 147 in: The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities,
     Practices and Politics. Edited by Stanley D. Brunn.
     New York: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2013.

Kiku Day, co-editor with Matt Gillan and Patrick Huang: Folk and Songs in Japan and Beyond:
     Ethnomusicological Essays in Honour of David W. Hughes.
     Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2022

Kiku Day & Kenneth Larsen: "Music for Longchenpa.
     Meditative Explorations for Clarinet and Shakuhachi."
     Booklet/liner notes for 2022 CD recorded by
     Kenneth Larsen & Kiku Day. 32-page informative booklet.
     Prod. & publ. in 2022 by Vækstcentret, Nr. Snede, Denmark.

Dave Dobbs: "Zen Gamma".
     Article about meditating Zen monks and brain wave activity.
     Publ. in in the journal Scientific Amerian Mind:
     SA Mind 16, 1, 9 (April 2005)

Hugh De Ferranti: Japanese Musical Instruments.
     Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.

Max Deeg: 'Komusō and "Shakuhachi Zen". From Historical Legitimation
     to the Spiritualisation of a Buddhist denomination in the Edo Period.'
     In: 'Japanese Religions', Vol. 32 (1 & 2): pp. 7-38, 2007.
     Link: https://www.academia.edu/11667141/Komuso_and_Shakuhachi_Zen_From_Historical_Legitimation_to_Spiritualisation_of_a_Buddhist_Denomination_in_the_Edo_Period.

Bruno Deschênes: 'B Deschenes: Shakuhachi a Reinvented Tradition.'
     English summary of the author's book in French,
     "Le Shakuhachi Japonais", Paris, 2017.
     Link to online PDF version:
     http://files.shakuhachisociety.eu/calendar-2017/BDeschenes_shakuhachi_a_reinvented_tradition.pdf

Bruno Deschênes: "Japanese Traditional Instrumental Music. An overview of solo and ensemble development."
     Web article, no date. Link: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/japan.htm#shakuhachi

Bruno Deschênes: Le shakuhachi japonais. Une tradition réinventée.
     Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, 2017.

Bruno Deschênes: 'The Interest of Westerners in Non-Western Music.'
     In: World of Music-London Then Berlin-, January 1, 2005.
     https://www.academia.edu/860390/The_Interest_of_Westerners_in_Non_Western_Music?email_work_card=title

Bruno Deschênes: Transmusicality, Mastering a Music from Another Culture."
     Zagreb, Croatian Musicological Society, 2022.

Sebastian Dobson: Unter den Augen des Preussen-Adlers, Lithographien, Zeichnungen und Photographien
     der Teilnehmer der Eulenburg-Expedition in Japan, 1860-61,
     Under eagle eyes, lithographs, drawings & photographs from the Prussian expedition to Japan, 1860-61,
     Sebastian Dobson; Sven Saaler, 1968-; Deutsche Gesellschaft fü:r Natur- und Vö:lkerkunde Ostasiens, 2012

John Dougill: In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians.
     A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival.
     Tuttle Publishing, 2012, 2015.

Heinrich Dumoulin: A History of Zen Buddhism.
     Pantheon Books, New York, 1963.

Heinrich Dumoulin: Zen Buddhism. A History. Volume 1: India & China.
     Trsl. by James W. Heisig & Paul F. Knitter.
     World Wisdom, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 2005.

Heinrich Dumoulin: Zen Buddhism. A History. Volume 2: Japan.
     Trsl. by James W. Heisig & Paul F. Knitter.
     World Wisdom, Inc., Bloomington, Indiana, 2005.


E:

James Rhys Edwards: 'Theory "Between Inside and Outside": A Response to Zachary Wallmark's
     "Sacred Abjection in Zen Shakuhachi".'
     Ethnomusicology Review, Volume 17 (2012)
     Link: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/17/piece/584?fbclid=IwAR0uo-MVeubSaif7iyx5NyyzEhxrPRCnfi-uFgg7guHsh0lPI9mxzD7i0YI

George Elison & Bardwell L. Smith, editors:
     Warlords, Artists, and Commoners.
     Japan in the Sixteenth Century.      University Press of Hawaii, 1981.

Sir Charles Elliot: Japanese Buddhism. London, 1935.
     3rd impression, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1964.

Shusaku Endo / Endō Shūsaku: Silence.
     Original Japanese novel published in 1966.
     Peter Owen Publishers, London, 2003, 2007 & 2009.
     English translation first published in 1969
     by Sophia University Press. Tokyo,
     Copyright © by William Johnston, 1969.
     Movie by Martin Scors´se published in 2016.


F:

David Farrelly: The Book of Bamboo.
     Sierra Club Books, San Fransisco, 1984.

Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia.
     Harvard University Press, 2005.

Ingrid Fritsch: Die Solo-Honkyoku der Tozan-Schule: Musik für
     Shakuhachi zwischen Tradition und Moderne Japans.
     In: Studien zur traditionellen Musik Japans, Vol. 4,
     Bärenreiter, Kassel, 1979.

Ronald H. Fritze: Invented Knowledge. False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-religions.
     Reaktion Books, London, 2009.

Fujii Joji: Edo jidai no o-fure.
     "Public Proclamations in Edo Period Japan."
     Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tokyo, 2013.

Fung Yu-lan: A Short History of Chinese Philosophy.
     The Free Press, New York & Collier-MacMillan Limited,
     London, 1948, 1968.


G:

Robert Garfias: Music of a Thousand Autumns.
     The Tōgaku Style of Japanese Court Music.
     University of California Press, Berkeley, 1975.

Robert Garfias: Music of a Thousand Autumns.
     The Tōgaku Style of Japanese Court Music.
     An Analysis of Theory in Practice.
     Dissertation. University of California press, 1965.

Matt Gillan: "Sankyoku Magazine and the Invention of the Shakuhachi
     as Religious Instrument in Early 20th-Century Japan."
     In: Yale Journal of Music & Religion, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2021.
     Link: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yjmr/vol7/iss1/2/

Gerald Groemer: Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900:
     The Beggar's Gift.
     Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia, January 2016.

Robert Grous - see Bob Berlin-Grous.

R.H. van Gulik: Hsi K'ang and his Poetical Essay on the Lute.
     Sophia University, Tokyo, and The Charles E. Tuttle Company,
     Rutland, Tokyo, 1941, 1969.

Gunsho ruijū, Vol. 28. First published in 1733 by Hanawa Hokiichi.
     Zoku Gunsho Ruijū Kankōkai, Tokyo, 1933.

Andreas B. Gutzwiller: Die Shakuhachi der Kinko-Schule.
     In the series 'Studien zur traditionellen Musik Japans, Band 5.
     Bärenreiter - Kassel, Basel, London, 1983.

Andreas B. Gutzwiller: Shakuhachi. Aspects of History, Practice and
     Teaching. PhD thesis, Wesleyan University, USA, 1974.

Andreas B. Gutzwiller: "The Shakuhachi of the Fuke-Sect: Instrument of Zen."
     In: The World of Music Vol. 26, No. 3, Sacred Music II (1984), pp. 53-65 (13 pages)
     Published by: VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
     Links: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43561007?seq=1
     https://www.jstor.org/stable/43561007

Andreas B. Gutzwiller & Gerald Bennett: 'The world of a single sound:
     basic structure of the music of the japanese flute shakuhachi.'
     In: Musica Asiatica Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press,
     Cambridge, England, 1991, pp. 36-60.


H:

Edward Hagemann: "The Persecution of the Christians in Japan
     in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century."
     Publ. in Pacific Historical Review
     Vol. 11, No. 2, June, 1942, pp. 151-160 (10 pages)
     Made available byy: University of California Press
Link to online PDF file: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3633765

Eta Harich-Schneider: A History of Japanese Music.
     Oxford University Press, London, 1973.

Eta Harich-Schneider: The Rhythmical Patterns in Gagaku and Bugaku.
     E.J. Bill, 1954.

William Harmless: Mystics.
     Oxford University Press, 2008.

LeRon James Harrison: "From Martial Arts to Practice: A Philosophical Examination of the Term Martial Art."
     In: Philosophy Study, August 2015, Vol. 5, No. 8, 383-394.
     Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sent/FMfcgzGtwznDfzSFvtkVBpcLlGLsmptB?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1

LeRon James Harrison: "Gagaku in Place and Practice: A Philosophical Inquiry
     into the Place of Japanese Imperial Court."
     In: Asian Music, Volume 48, Number 1, Winter/Spring 2017, pp. 4-27.
     Link: https://www.academia.edu/30951583/Gagaku_in_Place_and_Practice_A_Philosophical_Inquiry_into_the_Place_of_Japanese_Imperial_Court_Music_in_Contemporary_Culture?auto=download&email_work_card=download-paper

Peter Haskel: Bankei Zen. Translations from the Record of Bankei.
     Edited by Yoshito Hakeda.
     Grove Press, Inc. New York, 1984.

James Earl Hathaway Jr.: Zen and the Samurai:
     Rethinking Ties Between Zen and the Warrior.
     Masters Theses, Graduate School,
     University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 2006.
     Link: https://trace.tennessee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6006&context=utk_gradthes&httpsredir=1&referer=

Hayashi Nozomu & Peter Francis Kornicki: Early Japanese books in Cambridge University Library.
     Cambridge University Press Repr., Cambridge, 1991.

Carolyn Martha Haynes: Parody in the maikyōgen
     and the monogurui kyōgen. Ph.D. thesis.
     Cornell University, USA, 1988.
     Available online at https://secure.umi.com
     Cat. no. AAT 8804579.

Bhikshuni Heng Ch'i, trsl.: The Shurangama Sutra, Vol. III.
     The Buddhist Text Translation Company,
     San Francisco, California, 1980.

Eugen Herrigel: Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens.
     Weller, Konstanz, 1948; Barth, München-Planegg, 1951.
     Published in English in 1953. Published in Japanese in 1955.

Eugen Herrigel: Zen in the Art of Archery.
     United States, 1953.
     Originally published in German in 1948.

Hirai Tomio: Psychophysiology of Zen
     Igaku Shoin, Tokyo, 1978.

Hirai Tomio: Zen and the Mind. Scientific Approach to Zen Practice.
     Japan Publications, Inc., Tokyo, 1978.

Hisamatsu Shin'ichi: Zen and the Fine Arts.
     Kodansha International Ltd.,
     Tokyo, New York & San Fransisco, 1971.

Lewis Hodous and William E. Soothill: A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms:
     with Sanskrit and English Equivalents and a Sanskrit-Pali Index.
     Routledge, 1937, 1970, 1977, 2003.

Frank Hoff: Song, Dance and Storytelling: Aspects of the
     Performing Arts in Japan.
     Cornell East Asia Series Number 15, 1978.

Hori Ichirō/Ichiro Hori: 'On the Concept of Hijiri (Holy Man).'
     In: Numen 5, 2 (April), pp. 128-160; Numen 5, 3 (September), pp. 199-232, 1958.

Victor Sōgen Hori: Zen Sand. The Book of Capping Phrases
     for Kōan Practice.
     Compiled, translated, and annotated by Victor Sōgen Hori.
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Hitomi Tonomura: "Forging the Past. Medieval Counterfeit Documents."
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musician: See Stanley Sadie, editor.

Isaac Titsingh (M. Titsingh): Cérémonies usitées au Japon pour les mariages et
     les funérailles suivies de détails sur la poudre Dosia,
     de la préface d'un livre de Confoutzée sur la piété filiale,
     le tout traduit du Japonais.
     Paris, 1819.

Isaac Titsingh (M. Titsingh): Illustrations of Japan; consisting of private memoirs
     and anecdotes of the reigning dynasty of the Djogouns,
     or Sovereigns of Japan; a description of the feasts and ceremonies
     observed throughout the year at their court; and of the ceremonies customary
     at marriages and funerals: to which are subjoined,
     observations on the legal suicide of the Japanese, remarks on their poetry,
     an explanation of their mode of reckoning time, particulars
     respecting the Dosia powder, the preface of a work by Confoutzee on filial piety, &c. &c.
     Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl, Ackermann, London, 1822.

Isaac Titsingh (M. Titsingh): Mémoires et anecdotes sur la dynastie régnante des Djogouns,
     Souverains du Japon, avec la description des fêtes et c´rémonies
     observées aux différentes époques de l'année à la Cour de ces Princes,
     et un appendice contenant des détails sur la poésie des Japonais,
     leur manière de diviser l'année, etc; Ouvrage orné de Planches gravées et coloriées,
     tiré des Originaux Japonais par M. Titsingh; publié avec des Notes et Eclaircissemens
     Par M. Abel Rémusat, in-8o, Paris (Nepveu), 1820.

Tōgi Masatarō & William Malm: Gagaku. Nihon no dentō, Vol. 7.
     Tankōsha, Kyōto, 1968.

Tōgi Masatarō & William Malm: Gagaku. Performing Arts of Japan
     Vol. 5. Transl. from Japanese by Don Kenny.
     Walker/Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo, 1971.

Alison McQueen Tokita & David W. Hughes, editors: The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music.
     SOAS Musicology Series. 466 pages.
     Publ. by Ashgate Publishing Group, England & USA, 2008.

Tonomura Hitomi: 'Forging the Past: Medieval Counterfeit Documents.'
     Monumenta Nipponica 40, 1, 1985, pp. 69-96.

Paul Yachita Tsuchihashi: Japanese Chronologicqal Tables
     from 601 to 1872 A.D.
     Sophia University Press, Tokyo, 1952.

Tsuge Gen'ichi: 'The History of the Kyotaku.'
     In: Asian Music, Vol. VIII, 2. New York, 1977.
     Link to online PDF file: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0044-9202(1977)8%3A2%3C47%3ATHOTK%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M

Tsukitani Tsuneko, Seyama Tōru & Simura Satosi:
     'The Shakuhachi: The Instrument and its Music,
     Change and Diversification.'
     In: 'Contemporary Music Review', 1994, Vol. 8, Issue 2,
     pp. 103-129. Translated by Riley Kelly Lee.

Tsukitani Tsuneko: 'The Shakuhachi and its music.' Pages 145-168
     in: The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music.
     SOAS Musicology Series. 466 pages.
     Publ. by Ashgate Publishing Group, England & USA, 2008.

Royall Tyler, trsl.: Selected Writings of Suzuki Shōsan.
     Cornell University, East Asia Papers, New York, 1977.


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Gustav Voss & Hubert Cieslik (trsls.): Kirishito-ki und Sayo-yoroku:
     Japanische Dokumente zur Missionsgeschichte
     des 17. Jahrhunderts (English).
     Sophia University, Tokyo, 1940, 229 pages.


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Zachary Wallmark: "Sacred Abjection in Zen Shakuhachi."
     In: Ethnomusicology Review, Volume 17, 2012.
     Link: https://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/17/piece/585

Burton Watson, trsl.: The Zen Teachings of Master Lin-chi. A translation
     of the Lin-chi Lu. Columbia University Press, 1999.

William Watson: China. William Watson, London, 1961.

William Watson: The Genius of China. Catalogue printed for the
     exhibition of archaeological finds of the People's Republic of
     China at the Royal Academy, London, Sept. 29, 1973, to Jan. 23, 1974.
     Times Newspapers Ltd., London, 1973.

Alan W. Watts: An Outline of Zen Buddhism.
     32 page pamphlet, The Golden Vista Presa, 1932.

Alan W. Watts: Beat Zen Square Zen and Zen.
     City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1959.

Alan W. Watts: The Spirit of Zen.
     A Way of Life, Work and Art in the Far East.
     E.P. Dutton, 1936.

Alan W. Watts: The Way of Zen.
     Pantheon Books, 1957, 1971.

Carl Wegner: Asien - China, Japan, Indien, Zentralasien / Australien und Ozeanien /
     Vorderer Orient / - Geschichte, Kultur, Sprache, Reisewerke,
     Expeditionsberichte. Antiquariats - Katalog des Antiquariat Carl Wegner, Berlin.
     Mit 727 Nummern. Antiquariat Berlin, April 1964.

Elliot Weisgarber: 'The Honkyoku of the Kinko-ryū:
     Some Principles of its Organization.'
     In: Ethnomusicology XII, 3 (September), 1968, pp. 313-344.

Wen Wu (Chinese periodical of ancient matters). Special issue
     about the excavations at Ma-wang-tui, Ch'ang-sha, Hunan.
     Wen Wu Publishing Co., Beijing, July 1972.
     Wikipedia. The Free Dictionary (English language: http://en.wikipedia.org).

David Gordon White, editor: Tantra in Practice.
     Motilal Banarsidass Publisher, Private Limited, Delhi, 2001.
     First Edition: UK, 2000.

Wikipedia. The Free Dictionary (Japanese language: http://ja.wikipedia.org).

Duncan Williams: 'The Purple Robe Incident and the Formation
     of the Early Modern Sōtō Zen Institution.'
     Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36/1, pp. 27–43,
     Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Kyoto, 2009.

Wong Wah-Sang: 'The Music of Buddha Nature - Blowing Zen on the Shakuhachi.'
     In: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science,
     Vol. 4, No. 8, June 2014, pp. 64-80.
     Link to online PDF: www.ijhssnet.com/journals/


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Yamada Shōji: 'The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery.'
     Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 2001, 28/1-2.
     Link to online PDF file: https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2726

Yamasaki Taikō: Shingon. Japanese Esoteric Buddhism.
     Shambala, Boston & London, 1988.


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Juzhong Zhang, Garman Harbottle, Changsui Wang & Zhaochen Kong:
     'Oldest playable musical instruments found at Jiahu early Neolithic site in China.'
     In: NATURE, Vol. 401, Num. 6755, pp. 366-368, 23 September 1999.

Reinhard Zöllner: Japanische Zeitrechnung.
     Iudicium Verlag, München, 2003.

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