"Kinko Honkyoku prepared by Miura Kindo."

Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
Jecklin Musikhaus - JD 588-2
1984

Track	Title	Kanji	Length	Artist
1	Banshiki Chō	盤渉調	07'58	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	This piece is played as an introduction to the piece Shin Kyorei. Banshiki is the note on the Sino-Japanese musical scale that corresponds roughly to our B. On the instrument played here, however, a shakuhachi two foot long, it sounds like B flat.
2	Shin Kyorei	真虚霊	20'33	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	"The true spirit of emptiness". One of the three central pieces (koden sankyoku) of the Kinko school's honkyoku. According to the legend, it was composed as early as the 9th century in China by a follower of the Zen master Fuke, and is said to have been brought to Japan together with the shakuhachi by Kakushin (1207 -1298). It has one of the typical honkyoku forms, in which the first part, set in the lower and middle registers, is followed by one in the high register (takane), which then leads back into the low register at the end.
3	Hi Fu Mi Hachigaeshi no Shirabe (Kinko Ryū)	一二三鉢返の調	12'29	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	Originally two pieces, that are generally played as one today. The first short piece, Hifumi (literally '1-2-3', i. e. 'beginning'), moves in the lower register, the second forms a descending musical line with many interruptions. Hachigaeshi ('give the begging-bowl back') indicates that the piece was originally played during alms-collecting. The piece is brought to an end by an exttra piece of music that Araki Kodo II (1823-1908) composed.
4	Sokaku Reibo	巣鶴鈴慕	16'01	Shakuhachi: Andreas Fuyu Gutzwiller
	Sokaku means 'nest of the cranes'. The piece belongs to those of the 36 honkyoku that were not played in the religious context. There are twelve sections, in each of which a particular playing technique is treated musically- e. g. korokoro (a kind of double trill), or tamane (flutter-tonguing). The pieces recorded here are played according to the complete edition of the honkyoku of the Kinko school prepared by Miura Kindo, Tokyo 1927.