Honkyoku

Honkyoku (本曲, "original pieces") are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by mendicant Japanese Zen monks called komusō. Komusō played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century. Honkyoku is the practice of suizen ("blowing Zen"). The Fuke sect which originated this practice ceased to exist in the 19th century, but a verbal and written lineage of many honkyoku continues today, though the music is now often practiced in a concert or performance setting.

There are many ryū, or schools, of honkyoku, each with their style, emphasis, and teaching methods.

Kinko Ryū

In the 18th century, a komusō named Kinko Kurosawa of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism was commissioned to travel Japan and collect these musical pieces. Although it is commonly thought that the 36 pieces of the Kinko Ryū Honkyoku repotoire were collected and played by Kinko Kurosawa, in fact these pieces as currently played were significantly changed and codified by later generations, including Miura Kindo and others.

# Hifumi - Hachigaeshi no Shirabe
# Taki-ochi no Kyoku (Taki-otoshi no Kyoku)
# Akita Sugagaki
# Koro Sugagaki
# Kyūshū Reibo
# Shizu no Kyoku
# Kyō Reibo
# Mukaiji Reibo
# Kokū Reibo
# a) Ikkan-ryū Kokū kaete, b) Banshikichō
# Shin no Kyorei
# Kinsan Kyorei
# Yoshiya Reibo
# Yūgure no Kyoku
# Sakae-jishi
# Uchikae Kyorei
# Igusa Reibo
# Izu Reibo
# Reibo-nagashi
# Sōkaku Reibo
# Sanya Sugagaki
# Shimotsuke Kyorei
# Meguro-jishi
# Ginryū Kokū
# Sayama Sugagaki
# Sagari-ha no Kyoku
# Namima Reibo
# Shika no Tône
# Hōshōsu
# Akebono no Shirabe
# Akebono Sugagaki
# Ashi no Shirabe
# Kotoji no Kyoku
# Kinuta Sugomori
# Tsuki no Kyoku
# Kotobuki no Shirabe

At least three additional pieces were later added to the Kinko-Ryu repertoire:
# Kumoi Jishi
# Azuma no Kyoku
# Sugagaki

Dokyoku

Founded by Watazumi Doso Roshi in the 1950s, the Dokyoku Honkyoku repertoire consists of:
# Daha
# Dai Otsugaeshi
# Hon Shirabe
# Jyakunen
# Kaze
# Koden Sugomori
# Koku
# Motogaeshi
# Mushirabe
# Reibo
# Sagari Ha (Kansai)
# Sagari Ha (Ōshū)
# Sagari Nami
# San'an
# San'ya
# Shingetsu
# Sokkan
# Tamuke
# Tsuru no Sugomori
# Ukigumo
# Yamagoe (also, Reiho)

External links

* [http://www.zenflute.com/kinko.html Kinko Ryū information]
* [http://www.komuso.com/schools/Kinko_Ryu.html Kinko Ryū repertoire]
* [http://www.komuso.com/schools/Dokyoku.html Dokyoku repertoire]