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Kobayashi Jido Shizan

小林 紫山

Kobayashi Jido Shizan
11/16/1877 - 1934

Shakuhachi

The second most important figure in this post-Edo Meian-ha history, after Taizan, is Kobayashi Jido Shizan. He "enhanced" the honkyoku that Taizan had collected, possibly by organizing them into the teaching regimen of 32 honkyoku, with its levels of achievement and ability, similar to the same system found in the Kinko-ryu. He also notated and published them in the form that is still in use today. Shizan was the 36th abbot of Meianji from 1914.

Taken from email correspondence with Norman Stanfield, Ph.D. (ABD)

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Title Kanji Publisher Year Pages Language
Shakuhachi honryu myoan suishō kikai. (With Tominomori Kyozan = Kyozan Koji)
尺八本流明暗吹簫法基階Tokyo: Oya Shobo 1930 141 Japanese