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Kiku Day



Kiku (Kikutsubo 菊壺) Day, born in Tokyo 19 October, 1965, is a ji-nashi shakuhachi (地なし尺八, also called kyotaku 虚鐸 or hocchiku 法竹) player from Denmark, with roots from Japan, USA, Ireland, and Russia. Between 1989 and 1999, she studied honkyoku 本曲, the traditional repertoire of the komusō 虚無僧monks, with Okuda Atsuya 奥田敦也 (1945-) in Tokyo, during which time she also studied ji-nashi shakuhachi-making with Murai Eigorō 村井英五郎 (1932-).



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