FUJIYOSHI Etsuzan

Tokyo, Japan

FUJIYOSHI Etsuzan strived to learn music and performance styles of the neighbouring countries in order to master the shakuhachi. He studied the following instruments and musical styles with the teachers mentioned below:

• Shakuhachi:
Studied Kinko Ryū Araki Ha with KIMURA Yusai
Contemporary performance methods with HORII Kojiro
Fuke shakuhachi pieces, Shinobu Ryū pieces and hitoyogiri with TAKAHASHI Kuzan

• Gagaku singing with BUNNO Hideaki, SONO Koshin, TOGI Kanehiko
• Shōmyō from Shōmyō Yonin no Kai
• Okinawan sanshin with TAKAHSHI Toshio
• Okinawan samba with KAWADA Reiko
• Kanda-bayashi with KOBAYASHI Isso and others
• Awaodori-bayashi with Koenji Iroha Ren
• Yakibushi-bayashi with the fifth HORIGOME Genta from Ogasawara Mutsumi Ren
• Chinese wind instruments with CHO Gyoki
• Korean music on the following instruments: Taegŭm, tanso, piri with I On, PAKKUN Jyon, ITON Shin, PAKU Pyon’o, KIM Hyonmin.
• Indian Music music theory with Tim Hoffmann and TATSUNO Motoyasu and bansuri with Ravindranath VEMPATI
• Turkish ney with ISMAIL
• Persian percussion instruments with Tonbrakari ISFANHAL
• Five-holed ocarina with SAYAMA Fumio and SHIRAI Susumu
• Didgeridoo with UENO TetsuJ
• Mouth harp with TADAGAWA Reo, MAKIGAMI Koichi
• Min’yō Esashi Oiwake with KUNIBARA Shugetsu
• Edo vendor’s cry​ with MIYATA Shoji
• Improvisation practice with SHODA Jiro and KITAYO Ichiro