derived from the Zen-tradition, to which the komusō nominally belonged. In the 19th century the komusō-tradition became known as the Fuke-shū (Japanese:...

notable for their role in the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhist monks, known as komusō ("priests of nothingness" or "emptiness monks"), who used the shakuhachi...

and allowing him to travel undistracted on his journey. Tengai (天蓋): (see komusō) Torioigasa (鳥追笠): a folded kasa, famously worn for the Awa Dance Festival...

of Linji (J. Rinzai-roku 臨剤録). Fuke was used to create a legend for the komusō samurai-monks that appeared in Edo-period Japan. They used their self-named...

(1968-2016), Japanese musician and record producer Kinko Kurosawa (1710–1771), komusō and music collector Kowloon Kurosawa (born 1971), essayist and nonfiction...

ninja to spy in enemy buildings without rousing suspicion. Disguises as a komusō, a mendicant monk known for playing the shakuhachi, were also effective...

teacher, and craftsman. Like his teacher, Kyochiku Tani, Nishimura became a komusō (a mendicant shakuhachi player). Nishimura wandered Japan as a mendicant...

are generally left more intact than those of a shakuhachi, though older komuso shakuhachi also share this trait. Together, these characteristics make for...

Part of a series on Komusō People Ennin Ichirōsō Ikkyū Kakushin Kyochiku Zenji/Kichiku Fuke/Puhua Rōan Zhang Bai Komu Kinko Kurosawa Chang Po/Chōhaku Philosophy...

traditional Jiuta. At the age of nineteen Rinzō Nakao was initiated as a komusō, a Buddhist monk and practitioner of suizen, at Tōfuku-ji temple in Kyōto...