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List of shakuhachi players

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ18355779 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable shakuhachi and hotchiku players, arranged by surname.

B

Clive Bell

Christopher Yohmei Blasdel

Cornelius Boots (Cornelius Shinzen Boots)

D

Watazumi Doso

E

Douglas Ewart

H

Joji Hirota

I

Yoshikazu Iwamoto

J

Phil Nyokai James

K

Kaoru Kakizakai

Daisuke Kaminaga

Masayuki Koga

Kinko Kurosawa

L

Ken LaCosse

Riley Lee

M

Kōhachiro Miyata

Minoru Muraoka

N

John Kaizan Neptune

O

Atsuya Okuda

R

Randy Raine-Reusch

Alcvin Ramos

Brian Ritchie (Brian Tairaku Ritchie)

Rodrigo Rodriguez

Ned Rothenberg

S

James Nyoraku Schlefer

Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin

Y

Gorō Yamaguchi

Hōzan Yamamoto

Katsuya Yokoyama

Masakazu Yoshizawa

See also

Shakuhachi

References

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Shakuhachi players, makers, composers, etc.

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