Fuke school

A is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the . A bamboo flute known as the or was derived from the Chinese xiao in the Nara period and died out in the 10th century. After a long blank period, the appeared in the 15th century, and then in the 16th century, the was developed in Japan. The flourished in the 18th century during the Edo period, and eventually the also died out. The developed in Japan is longer and thicker than the and has one finger hole less. It is long

thumb|right|A komusō (monk of the Fuke sect) wearing a basket hat (天蓋 tengai or tengui) and playing the shakuhachi, as depicted by J. M. W. Silver thumb|right|The entrance to Myōan-ji temple in Kyoto. Myōan-ji, a subsidiary of [[Tōfuku-ji, was the head temple of the Fuke sect, founded by the komusō Kyochiku Zenji.]]

Zhenzhou Puhua (Chinese: traditional: 鎮州普化, simplified: 普化, pinyin: Zhenzhou Pǔhuà; Japanese: Jinshu Fuke, honorifically Fuke Zenji (lit. "Zen master Fuke")—allegedly ca. 770–840 or 860), also called '''P'u-k'o, and best known by his Japanese name, Fuke', was a Chinese Chan (Zen) master, monk-priest, wanderer and eccentric, mentioned in the Record of Linji (臨剤録, C. Linji lu, J. Rinzai roku). Fuke was used to create a legend for the komusō samurai-monks that appeared in Edo-period Japan. They used their self-named Fuke Zen to establish a constructed connection to Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhism in

'''''' is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Matsudo in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It was the home temple of the Fuke sect of Zen Buddhism.