Gold tip

...It is said that a follower of this sect called Roan (a practitioner of the Fuanadō school) emerged during the Muromachi period, and the Fuke sect flourished. It is also said that Kinsaki (Koganeshi of Shimōsa, founder of Ichigetsū-ji Temple), who succeeded Takafuku's teachings, used the shakuhachi as a religious instrument and became the origin of the komo-sō. There are various theories as to why komo-sō came to be called komusō, including that this is due to the idea that the world is false and has no substance, and that if one does not observe it, one's mind becomes empty, and that another theory is that a person called komusō emerged from the line of Kakushin who established the form by adjusting the clothing and the flute...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "gold tips" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…その派徒から室町期に朗庵(風穴道者)と称する者がでて普化宗がさかえたといわれる。また宝伏の法を継いだ金先(下総小金，一月寺開祖)が尺八を法器とし薦僧のもととなったともいわれる。薦僧を虚無僧と表すようになったのは，世は虚仮で実体がないと観じ心を虚にするという考え方によるとか，また覚心の一系に虚無と称する者がでて服装や吹曲を整え形式を確立したことによるなど諸説がある。…

※「金先」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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