Folk musician Hanz Araki carries six generations of shakuhachi tradition into the present

On Tuesday, September 8th, musician Hanz (Hanzaburō) Araki will be giving a lecture and demonstration of the shakuhachi, a traditional Japanese vertical end-blown bamboo flute, at Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum. Araki is a sixth-generation shakuhachi player with deep familial ties to the centuries-old musical tradition. While the bamboo flute as an instrument first came to Japan from China via the Korean […]