[Japanese Music]

"Itinerant Priests with Shakuhachi" - Vintage Postcard Photograph

Striking vintage postcard (9 x 14 cm) photograph of two men playing the Japanese end-blown flute, "komuso" ("priests of nothingness," or "emptiness monks") of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism who used the flutes in the practice of "suizen" or "blowing meditation." The monks are here pictured with the wicker baskets that the Fuke wore over their heads, a symbol of their detachment from the world. (6295)

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