Hanzaburo Araki
Seattle-born musician Hanzaburo Araki is the world's only sixth generation shakuhachi player, following in the footsteps of his father, Kinko Ryu Grand Master Kodo Araki V. With no prior musical training, Hanz took up the shakuhachi, the traditional bamboo "Zen flute," at age 17. Under his father's tutelage, four months later he made his concert debut in Shimonoseki, Japan. Returning to Seattle in 1991, he has performed in the Northwest Folklife Festival every year from 1998 to the present, as well as for the Gates Estate, Seattle Art Museum, and the Seattle Asian Art Museum. In 2009, he was named Araki Kodo VI by his father in a small ceremony in Tokyo.
