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Honkyoku (本曲, "original pieces") are the pieces of shakuhachi or hotchiku music played by mendicant Japanese Zen monks called komusō. Komusō played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century. Honkyoku is the practice of suizen ("blowing Zen"). The Fuke sect which originated this practice ceased to exist in the 19th century, but a verbal and written lineage of many honkyoku continues today, though the music is now often practiced in a concert or performance setting.

There are many ryū, or schools, of honkyoku, each with their style, emphasis, and teaching methods.

Kinko Ryū [link]

In the 18th century, a komusō named Kinko Kurosawa of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism was commissioned to travel Japan and collect these musical pieces. Although it is commonly thought that the 36 pieces of the Kinko Ryū Honkyoku repertoire were collected and played by Kinko Kurosawa, in fact these pieces as currently played were significantly changed and codified by later generations, including Miura Kindo and others.

1. Hifumi - Hachigaeshi no Shirabe
2. Taki-ochi no Kyoku (Taki-otoshi no Kyoku)
3. Akita Sugagaki
4. Koro Sugagaki
5. Kyūshū Reibo
6. Shizu no Kyoku
7. Kyō Reibo
8. Mukaiji Reibo
9. Kokū Reibo
10. a) Ikkan-ryū Kokū kaete, b) Banshikichō
11. Shin no Kyorei
12. Kinsan Kyorei
13. Yoshiya Reibo
14. Yūgure no Kyoku
15. Sakae-jishi
16. Uchikae Kyorei
17. Igusa Reibo
18. Izu Reibo
19. Reibo-nagashi
20. Sōkaku Reibo
21. Sanya Sugagaki
22. Shimotsuke Kyorei
23. Meguro-jishi
24. Ginryū Kokū
25. Sayama Sugagaki
26. Sagari-ha no Kyoku
27. Namima Reibo
28. Shika no Tône
29. Hōshōsu
30. Akebono no Shirabe
31. Akebono Sugagaki
32. Ashi no Shirabe
33. Kotoji no Kyoku
34. Kinuta Sugomori
35. Tsuki no Kyoku
36. Kotobuki no Shirabe

	Shika no Tōne A honkyoku piece recorded by Araki Kodō.
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At least three additional pieces were later added to the Kinko-Ryu repertoire:

1. Kumoi Jishi
2. Azuma no Kyoku
3. Sugagaki

Dokyoku [link]

Founded by Watazumi Doso Roshi in the 1950s, the Dokyoku Honkyoku repertoire consists of:

1. Daha
2. Dai Otsugaeshi
3. Hon Shirabe^{[note 1]}
4. Jyakunen
5. Kaze
6. Koden Sugomori
7. Koku
8. Motogaeshi
9. Mushirabe
10. Reibo
11. Sagari Ha (Kansai)
12. Sagari Ha (Ōshū)
13. Sagari Nami
14. San'an
15. San'ya
16. Shingetsu
17. Sokkan
18. Tamuke
19. Tsuru no Sugomori
20. Ukigumo
21. Yamagoe (also, Reiho)

Notes [link]

References [link]

External links [link]

• Kinko Ryū information
• Kinko Ryū repertoire
• Dokyoku repertoire