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Asuka Reibo (Chikuho Ryu)

飛鳥鈴慕

This is a piece of genre Modern Honkyoku from the Chikuho Ryû School.

Yearning for the Bell of Asuka

This is another version of the "Reibo" piece, transmitted in the Asuka district of Japan. Unlike most of the "Reibo" pieces, this version is very short in duration. It is performed here on an uncommonly short instrument, only 1.3 shaku in length.

Asuka Reibo (Chikuho Ryu) appears on the following albums

	Album	Shakuhachi	Koto	Shamisen
	Mountain Valley	Riley Kelly Lee
Yearning for the Bell of Asuka This is another version of the "Reibo" piece, transmitted in the Asuka district of Japan. Unlike most of the "Reibo" pieces, this version is very short in duration. It is performed here on an uncommonly short instrument, only 1.3 shaku in length.
	Pathway	Robert Herr
Legend states that the first honkyoku was played in the 12th century By a Buddhist priest in China, who, in a trance, fashioned a flute from bamboo and played in such a way as to evoke the memory of his recently deceased teacher, who taught by ringing a handbell. Asuka Reibo (Yearning for the bell-Asuka variant) can therefore mean "yearning for enlightenment."
	Reibo	Sakai Chikuho II

The International Shakuhachi Society - 2013