NEW Hōzan 1.8 $5500. Extraordinarily beautiful unusual bamboo. The tonality goes along with it: warm, velvety, deep. This flute has a lovely soundscape with a distant horizon. Light at 280g.

NEW Hōzan 1.8 $5000. Open, very responsive and quick sound. Delightful to hold and easy to play. Richly variegated tones. Feather light at 250g.

NEW Suikyo 1.6 nobekan jinashi. $1700. Myoan utaguchi. Myoan type of sound....broad and melifluous. The ro is lovely on this flute. Very lightweight.

SOLD Suikyo 1.8 nobekan susudake $2000. A dream flute at this price. Great strong tone and tuning. Featherweight at 280g. Can play anything well.

SOLD Hōzan 1.8 $5500. Special Kurochiku black bamboo. Easily voiced and focused, this beautiful flute has a charming tone and behaves extremely well all through the octaves. Very user-friendly. Light at 280g.

NEW Hōzan 1.9 $4000. Delightful, resonant, multi-layered expressive tone. Finely tuned, gorgeous bamboo. Featherweight at 280g.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 susudake nobekan, $3700. Gorgeous in every way. Excellent, well-tuned, very responsive, warm and earthy sound. Very little ji, made mostly by subtraction. Light at 300g.

Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2500. Particulary likeable and responsive flute with even intonation and a capacity for strong focused tone. Voices easily. Beautiful to look at and to hold. Very good.

Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2500. Nobekan. Responsive, nice in the hands. This one will be a delight to own and play. Clear open sound.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 nobekan, $3600. Very slender and lightweight. 270g. Lovely and surprisingly powerful sound, vibrates like crazy. Ivory Myoan utaguchi. Mostly jinashi

Suikyõ 1.8 nobekan, 6 nodes. $2000. This flute plays excellently, looks great and and sounds very good. It is unusually fine for the price.

Suikyõ 1.8, $4000. Very lightweight at 270g. Open hollow tone. One of Suikyo's best. Highly responsive well-tuned jiari flute with very little ji in the bore. Great breath capacity. Hidden depths.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $4000.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $4500. Velvet, dark and complex sound. Takes a lot of air. Lightweight. Powerful and punchy.

Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $3500. Refined, powerful, complex, robust, responsive, beautiful. High quality bamboo and an excellent tonal quality to go along.

Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $3300. Very easy to play. Gome bamboo with pronounced texture. Rich tone color. This flute can be pushed hard when necessary.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2500. A very desirable, great performing flute with lovely tone. Responsiveness is unusual and rewarding.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $3300. Particularly good value. It has large holes and a wide open rich tone. The dai meri notes are easy. Extremely responsive. Lightweight 320g. Lovely bamboo.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2500. Unusually solid and beautiful for the price.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2000, ivory Meian utaguchi, big holes

Ichijo 1.8 shakuhachi $2700. Strong, colorful tone. A good example of Ichijo's work.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $4500. Dense, powerful tone. Very responsive. Very light at 270g. Ivory utaguchi. Beautiful in all ways.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $3500. Lovely instrument. Very easy to play. Gorgeous in looks and tone. Very light at 250g. Ivory utaguchi.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $5000. Velvety light and dark tones. Big bore, thin walls. Very lightweight at 250g. Ivory utaguchi. Brilliantly responsive and powerful.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $4500. Lightweight at 250g. Hõzan's quality and finish are clearly apparent. Superb tuning, intonation, response.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $3500, particularly attractive timbre, bamboo, tuning, value....weighs only 250g. Beautiful in all ways.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $5000. Huge, powerful, great projection, definition and response.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $4500. Lightweight and very responsive. Superb color.

SOLD Hõzan 1.8 shakuhachi $5000. Lightweight, responsive, very well-behaved.

SOLD Ichijo 1.8 shakuhachi $1900. Lightweight. Open sound. Very agreeable instrument. Feels nice in the hands.

SOLD Ichijo 1.8 shakuhachi $2200.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2700

SOLD Suikyõ 1.8 shakuhachi $2500

Suikyõ 2.7 shakuhachi $2100

NEW Hõzan 2.7 shakuhachi $3800. Big bore. Rich and resonant tone. The fingering is easy and the voice and power of the flute are accessible with little effort. A tone like soft clouds, with a promise of thunder.

SOLD Hõzan 2.7 shakuhachi $5000. Lighter than many 1.8s at 410g. Beautiful in all ways, with a warm and charming tone. Little ji. Easy to sound and play. Easy to fall in love with.

SOLD Hõzan 2.7 jinashi shakuhachi $5500. Big bore. Hollow tone. Really easy to hold and play. Chocolate velvet sound.

NEW Suikyõ 2.4 shakuhachi $3000.

NEW Suikyõ 2.4 shakuhachi $3000. Little ji

Suikyõ 2.4 shakuhachi $2300

SOLD Hõzan 2.4 jinashi shakuhachi $3000. Big bore. Weighs 330 gms. Delightful hollow tone. The bamboo is 300 years old smoked bamboo (susudake), from an old house in Kyoto. Brings a smile to all who pick it up!

SOLD Suikyõ 2.1 shakuhachi $2700. Almost no ji. Big sound, larger than average bore. Excellent responsiveness. Sophisticated complex tone. Great value. Superb lightweight honkyoku flute

Ichijo 2.1 shakuhachi $3200.

SOLD Suikyõ 2.1 shakuhachi $2700. Richly toned. Unusually fine, responsive flute, beautifully well-balanced.

SOLD Hõzan 2.1 shakuhachi $3500. Old susudake. Almost no ji. Two piece. Gorgeous in all ways. Third octave plays easily all the way. Rich and full tonality.

NEW Suikyõ 1.6 nobekan jinashi, $3000. Very responsive lively sound. Strong vibration. Ivory Myoan utaguchi. Dense bamboo. Powerful in all ways.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.6 shakuhachi $2500. Nobekan.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.6 shakuhachi $2700. Superb tuning and intonation. Bright and powerful.

Suikyõ 1.6 shakuhachi $2800. Superb tuning and intonation. Tonal core can be pushed into deep color.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.6 shakuhachi $1700. Unusually good value, great tuning and responsiveness.

SOLD Suikyõ 1.6 shakuhachi $2900.

Suikyõ 2.0 shakuhachi $2800. Nobekan. Ivory Meian utaguchi. Little ji.

Suikyõ 2.0 jinashi shakuhachi $1700, big holes, first class performer 330g light

Suikyõ 2.0 jinashi shakuhachi $1700, big holes 266g! amazingly light