NTS Guide to: Komuso Shakuhachi Flute Music - 24th February 2026

The Komuso were a sect of non-monastic wandering Buddhist monks who emerged in Edo period Japan, who were famous for their face-obscuring woven straw basket masks called tengai. They also differed from monastic Monks, who chose to meditate in silence, as the Komuso played a bamboo flute called a shakuhachi as a form of meditation.
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