The seventh regular performance "Shakuhachi Renaissance vol.1 -Source of Creation-"
Business Overview
It is a regular shakuhachi music performance held by the Japan Shakuhachi Performers' Network (JSPN), the only professional shakuhachi performers' group in Japan.
With the theme of "Revival and innovation of the independence of shakuhachi music," this 7th edition traces the path of predecessors who tried to rediscover and update the classics through radical creative activities in response to the times, and explores the origin of the independence of shakuhachi and its expression.
[Program]
1. "Shakuhachi Duet: Bamboo," composed by Kuniyama YAMAMOTO I (1962)
2. "Night Song," composed by Genchi HISUMOTO (1931)
3. "Hare for Three Shakuhachi," composed by Ryohei HIROSE (1969)
4. "Godanginuta," composed by Kengyo MITSUZAKI (Tenpo era)
5. Nezasa-ha Kinpu-ryu Honkyoku "Shishi" (Lion)
6. "Mizukagami," composed by Hibiki MUKAI (commissioned new work, world premiere)
- Period of Activity / Project
- Thursday, July 16, 2026
- Venues
- Sumida Triphony Hall (Sumida Ward)
Profile
[General Incorporated Association Japan Shakuhachi Performers Network]
The Japan Shakuhachi Performers Network (JSPN) was established in July 2018 for the purpose of improving the social and artistic value of shakuhachi music and players, and is the only professional shakuhachi players organization in Japan.
Emphasizing collaboration across schools and fields of activity, the shakuhachi works to pass on tradition and create new shakuhachi expressions for the present through performance activities, research, information sharing, and fostering the next generation.