Publications

Kiku Day: Mindful playing: A Practice Research investigation into Shakuhachi playing and Meditation, Ethnomusicology Forum Special Issues, edited by Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Brett Pyper, Aaron Corn. Forthcoming!

Kiku Day: Aesthetics of Imperfection in Shakuhachi Transmission. In Aesthetics of Imperfection, edited by Andrew Hamilton and Lara Pearson. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Kiku Day: Place and locality in Fuke style shakuhachi: The case of Nezasa-ha Kinpū Ryū. In Presence through Sound, edited by Keith Howard and Catherine Ingram. Farnham: Ashgate, 2020. 

Kiku Day: “Tamuke”: A Shakuhachi Requiem, in Pieces of the Musical World: Sounds and Cultures, edited by Rachel Harris and Rowan Pease. Oxford: Taylor & Francis, 2015.

Kiku Day: Zen Buddhism and music: Spiritual shakuhachi tours to Japan. In The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, edited by Stanley D. Brunn. New York: Springer Science + Business Media B.V., Dordrecht, 2015. 


Kiku Day: The effect of Meiji Government policy on traditional Japanese music: the case of the shakuhachiNineteenth Century Music Review vol. 10.2: 265-292. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.


Kiku Day: “Frank Denyer: Music for Shakuhachi Played by Yoshikazu Iwamoto” (review) Ethnomusicology Forum17.2, 2008

Kiku Day: Takemitsu Tōru’s November Steps: Bringing ‘East’ and ‘West’ together or Auto-Exoticism? Exploring East Asia: Selected Conference Papers, Durham East Asian Papers 19, University of Durham (UK), 2005.

I present my research at conferences 1,2,3 times a year. Here photos from the plenum presentation at the International Council for Traditional Music’s World Conference in Bangkok 2019