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Kokū Nishimura (西村 虚空 Nishimura Kokū, 1915 - June, 2002) was a master Japanese bamboo flute player, teacher, and craftsman. His teacher was Kyochiku Tani, who had been a komuso monk and one of the shakuhachi players who actively continued the tradition of shakuhachi playing as a spiritual practice despite the fact that the Fuke sect had been abolished in 1871. Nishimura Koku himself became a komusō (mendicant shakuhachi player originally belonging to the Fuke sect) and wandered Japan for ten years. The shakuhachi had a revival as a secular instrument in the early 20th century where it - despite the fact that it had been a solo instrument for the komusō monks - became an instrument for ensemble playing and mass shakuhachi orchestras for secular amateur players. Nishimura Kokū played an old version of the shakuhachi with no plaster added to the bore. He also favoured long instruments. He decided to call it kyotaku in order to differentiate it from the shorter and modern version of the shakuhachi, which had become standardised tuned to D. The name kyotaku was taken from the legend of the foundation of the Fuke sect described in Kyotaku Denki Kokujikai.
Nishimura Kokū's son, Koryū, continues to play and teach kyotaku in Kumamoto, Kumamoto.
His other accomplishments include woodcarving, painting, Okinawa karate (six dan black belt), and Kendo (three dan black belt).