Honkyoku
Honkyoku (本曲) are the pieces of shakuhachi or hocchiku music played by wandering Japanese Zen monks called Komuso. Komuso played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century. There are many ryu, or schools, of honkyoku, each with their style, emphasis, and teaching methods.
Kinko Ryu
In the 18th century, a Komuso named Kinko Kurosawa of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism was commissioned to travel Japan and collect these musical pieces. The results of several years of travel and compilation were 36 pieces known as the Kinko Ryu Honkyoku, listed below.
- Hifumi – Hachigaeshi no Shirabe
- Taki-ochi no Kyoku (Taki-otoshi no Kyoku)
- Akita Sugagaki
- Koro Sugagaki
- Kyûshû Reibo
- Shizu no Kyoku
- Kyô Reibo
- Mukaiji Reibo
- Kokû Reibo
- a) Ikkan-ryû Kokû kaete, b) Banshikichô
- Shin no Kyorei
- Kinsan Kyorei
- Yoshiya Reibo
- Yûgure no Kyoku
- Sakae-jishi
- Uchikae Kyorei
- Igusa Reibo
- Izu Reibo
- Reibo-nagashi
- Sôkaku Reibo
- Sanya Sugagaki
- Shimotsuke Kyorei
- Meguro-jishi
- Ginryû Kokû
- Sayama Sugagaki
- Sagari-ha no Kyoku
- Namima Reibo
- Shika no Tône
- Hôshôsu
- Akebono no Shirabe
- Akebono Sugagaki
- Ashi no Shirabe
- Kotoji no Kyoku
- Kinuta Sugomori
- Tsuki no Kyoku
- Kotobuki no Shirabe
At least three additional pieces were later added to the Kinko-Ryu repertoire:
- Kumoi Jishi
- Azuma no Kyoku
- Sugagaki
Dokyoku
Founded by Watazumi Doso Roshi in the 1950s, the Dokyoku Honkyoku repertoire consists of:
- Daha
- Dai Otsugaeshi
- Hon Shirabe
- Jyakunen
- Kaze
- Koden Sugomori
- Koku
- Motogaeshi
- Mushirabe
- Reibo
- Sagari Ha (Kansai)
- Sagari Ha (Oshu)
- Sagari Nami
- San’an
- San’ya
- Shingetsu
- Sokkan
- Tamuke
- Tsuru no Sugomori
- Ukigumo
- Yamagoe (also, Reiho)
