Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Hello SaTaNaMa,

I was invited to be a part of this special ceremony by Yoshio Kurahashi. Due to our timing we couldn't participate this year. You can ask him about it by writing to him at: mujuan@nifty.com. I believe it is a yearly event. But you must have special permission from the Ikkyu Temple. The only way of participating in it is if you have good relations with Kurahashi-san or the Temple itself. Our group was initially invited and we are all Canadian (and one American) so gaikokujin are not excluded. We will try to again next year to attend this ceremony. You're welcome to join us! 

ATR
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Bas Nijenhuis wrote:

. On this ceremony a special song is played within the temple ground by mr. Kurahashi, I don't recall the name, but he tought us about it, it was called purple song .... reibo or someting.

"Murasaki Reibo" which is also called "Murasaki Reiho" or a variation is called "Murasakino no Kyoku". It's a song which (according to legend) was written by Ikkyu. Although this seems unlikely because the hitoyogiri Ikkyu would have played probably didn't get the scale properly. "Murasakino no Kyoku" actually could be played on hitoyogiri but the version Kurahashi plays has too many meri notes for a hitoyogiri. But that's a digression. Kurahashi Sensei plays it on 2.0 which he says plays in tune with the chanting of the monks. It is on Nov. 21st, Ikkyu's death day (and my birthday). This year Yoshio Kurahashi will have a ceremony changing his name from Yoshio to Yodo II on this day.

There are at least 4 versions of this tune.

Last year in November, my group (on my annual Japan Tour that I have been doing for 30 years) had the pleasure of playing at IKKYU-JI  (IKKYU-SAN's Temple), which is located in the suburbs of KYOTO. We went there with Kurahashi Sensei and were quite honored at being allowed to play MURASAKI REIBO, with him in front of Ikkyu-San's image. Coincidentally, a public TV crew, who were filming about 75 yards away -at that moment- captured our performance on there tape. They were not only covering the Temple, and Ikkyu-San's History, but had just mentioned his connection with the Shakuhachi and his composition -MURASAKI REIBO.

Imagine their surprise when the sound of 5 Shakuhachi players playing this piece came wafting over the Temple Walls to where they were filming at exactly the right moment!

Of course they kept the sound (with our permission) in their production - they even gave us end-credits on the DVD that they sent us of the production.

This year, the famous beautiful Maple-leaves of Ikkyu-ji, and of Kyoto , will again be in full flaming color in November (one of the other reasons that the TV crew were filming the beautiful trees of Ikkyu-ji), and my group will be going to play Murasaki Reibo again. But this time we will be supporting Kurahashi Yoshio Sensei in his new Lineage creating 60th birthday Concert (on the 21st of November- happy Birthday Brian - I hope you will join us!), after which he will be forever know as KURAHASHI YODO II.

There is still room in my group if you want to go for all or part of the Tour (See my announcement "Kurahashi Yodo II...A Celebration by Nyogetsu" on the "Events" page). The full Tour dates are from Nov. 6th- Nov. 23rd, 2009, and we will visit other Shakuhachi Makers, and perform in two additional Concerts - one in Tokyo, and one in Hitachi-Shi (Ibaraki Prefecture). You can contact me off-line at nyogetsu@gmail.com for any information.

Chris Moran wrote:

Ikkyu's other name was 'Crazy Cloud' so it would make perfect sense.

I resemble that remark!

they even gave us end-credits on the DVD that they sent us of the production.
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Nice one, Bas.