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Komuso Buddhist monks, Japan. They wear a straw basket (tengai) over their head and play a bamboo flute (shakuhachi). Date: circa 1890s
Japan - the ShakuhachiA Japanese musician plays the SHAKUHACHI, a wind instrument resembling the western flute
Kobe, Japan - A komuso (monk of the Fuke sect) wearing a basket hat (tengai or tengui) and playing the shakuhachi bamboo flute. Date: 1928