Syakuhati Kenkyukai

[The Syakuhati (Shakuhachi) Study Group]



Japanese


Syakuhati Kenkyukai


" Syakuhati Kenkyukai" was established and began its activities in 1983; the members at that starting point were TUKITANI Tuneko (chair), SIMURA Satosi, SEYAMA Toru, OKADA (TATSUMI) Yoko and NOMOTO Mariko. Soon after its foundation, adding five members listed avove, the group welcomed several professors/researches as guest speakers to the meeting. Among them: MABUCHI Usaburo, Silvain GUIGNARD, OHIGASHI Junko.

Since 1988, Riley LEE of the University of Sydney, receiving the grants from the Japan Foundation for the studies and research in Japan of his Ph D. thesis, has joined the group. Aa being in charge of Riley's instructor, professor YAMAGUTI Osamu of Osaka University kindly supported us, and at the same time KATO Yuki and YUKINO Tomoko also became the members of our Kenkyukai. This means the birth of the project, namely "internationalization of the syakuhati studies", in which we are extremely interested.

The importance of the studies in this field inevitably drew attentions from the government and led it admit to grant the subvention, during the financial term 1998-1991, to TUKITANI as the representative of the project. The report of the part of this project is already published.

The syakuhati studies significantly deal both with various different issues and many difficult problems. It would be our great pleasure if Syakuhati Kenkyukai could contribute to the development for the studies of Japanese music.



Publications


Some of the published reports/papers
resulted from the activeties of Syakuhati Kenkyukai are as followsF



TUKITANI Tuneko and Syakuhati Kenkyukai (editors)
1992
Collecting the basic source materials for the syakuhati and constructing a tentative data base thereof: a contribution to intra- and international uses. [bilingual: English/Japanese] Osaka: Syakuhati Kenkyukai.

The Syakuhati Kenkyukai
1991
"Distant calls of deer: an invitation to the world of classical syakuhati honkyoku". In Tradition and its future in music: Report of SIMS 1990 OSAKA (Edited by TOKUMARU Yosihiko et al.). Tokyo; Osaka: Mita Press. 640-645.

TUKITANI Tuneko, SEYAMA Toru and SIMURA Satosi
translated by Riley Kelly LEE
1994
"The Shakuhachi: The Instrument and its Music, Change and Diversification. Contemporary Music Review Vol.8, Part 2: 103-129.

SIMURA Satosi, TUKITANI Tuneko, SEYAMA Toru, YAMAGUTI Osamu
1993
"Simplicity as complexity - technicalities and aesthetics of Japanese musical instruments and music". In ICMC Proceedings 1993. Tokyo: 10-17

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