呼竹受竹(吹禅)
Call and response used to identify Komuso.

It was customary for komuso priests, when they chanced to cross paths while out collecting alms, to greet one another with this piece. One priest would first play Yobitake ("calling bamboo"). In this way, if the first priest played Yobitake three times, and the other priest could not respond with Uketake, he was exposed as an imposter, a bogus priest (in Japanese: maisu).

The style of playing this Yobidake-Ukedake varied with the school that the komuso belonged to, so that it was possible to distinguish where a priest came from by the style of his playing.

This version is transmitted is the Chikuho Style of Chikuho Sakai II. In this Chinkuho tradition the Yobitake and Uketake are each played three times…each time with more intensity. The Autai no Kyoku Is played once with each player playing one octave apart…one In otsu and one In kan.


Played on a 1.8 Miura Ryuho shakuhachi.

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