Nomura Mineyama and Take no Shinsengumi - Tradition and Creativity - Vol. 4

Name of the organization or individual

Tozan school shakuhachi, Hozan Eichiku no Shinsengumi

subsidy category

Creation Grant

Grant Type

single year

FY2025 2nd Term Creation Grant Category I Single-year Grant Art Creation Activities

Tozan-ryu Honkyoku 'Haru no Hikari' (Light of Spring)

"To Light"

"The Moon and Bamboo"

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Business Overview

This project aims at both tradition and creativity in shakuhachi music.
The first is to ensure the orthodox transmission of Tosan-ryu shakuhagaku, and the second is to create new shakuhagaku.
The professional musicians belonging to the Miyakozan-ryu school gathered and invited Hosanshi NOMURA (Living National Treasure), who was active at the forefront, as the music director, with the aim of passing down the fundamental style of performance of the Miyakozan-ryu school and revitalizing creative activities for shakuhachi.
With the theme of "Challenges to the Shakuhachi Ensemble," this 4th event featured research and performance presentations on attempts to expand the possibilities of the shakuhachi ensemble, taking up pieces of shakuhachi created for the shakuhachi or for ensembles by composers and performers of Japanese music and composers who studied Western music from the Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods.
At the same time, through these activities, they aimed to further promote the attractiveness of shakuhachi, to make shakuhachi music more familiar, and to become shakuhachi players and instructors who lead shakuhachi music in the future.

Period of Activity / Project

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Venues

Ginza Oji Hall (Chuo-ku)

Profile

[Tozan-ryu Shakuhachi Pozan-kai Bamboo Shinsengumi]
Tozan-ryu Shakuhachi Pozan-kai held a series of performances titled "The Sound of Bamboo" and received a special award at Nagoya Citizens' Art Festival in 2018.
On this occasion, we selected professional musicians and young musicians of the same spirit from the members.
Established in 2020 as a new group based in Tokyo to present the appeal of shakuhachi music with the two causes of "passing on the Miyakozan-ryu Honkyoku" and "creating new shakuhachi music".
In 2023, his members won the 1st to 4th prizes at the 47 Miyakoyama Style Honkyoku Contest.
In 2025, his members won the first, third, and fifth prizes at the 49 Tsusan-ryu Honkyoku Contest.