"The Road of Hasekura Tsunenaga"

This is a Traditional shakuhachi flute album dedicated to the Japanese ambassador and samurai Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga (1571-1622)
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In the years 1613 through 1620, Hasekura headed a diplomatic mission to the Vatican in Rome, traveling through New Spain (arriving in Acapulco and departing from Veracruz) and visiting various ports-of-call in

Europe. This historic mission is called the Keichō Embassy (慶長使節), and follows the Tenshō embassy (天

正使節) of 1582.A collection of pieces from the shakuhachi schools, Tozan Ryu, Nezasa Ha, Kinko Ryu and Mu-ryu were selected by Rodrigo for this memorial album and also thematic original compositions inspired in the mission of Hasekura Tsunenaga.

Rodrigo Rodriguez (born 29 August 1978) is a Spanish shakuhachi player, musical producer, and composer. Born in the Argentina, Rodrigo lived and grew up in Spain from the decade of the 80s. He has lived and studied shakuhachi in Japan under the discipline of the Master Kaoru Kakizakai in The In- ternational Shakuhachi Kenshunkan School and with Kohachiro Miyata one of Japan's leading players of the shakuhachi. Rodrigo has performed worldwide, at stages like Imperial Hotel Tokyo, NHK Culture events, and in the Temple Kōtoku-in of the "Great Buddha" of Kamakura city which is one of the most famous icons of Japan.

In 2012 he was invited to perform in Moscow, in the Tchaikovsky Conservatory for the International Festival "Nihon No Kokoro" which is directed by scientific and creative “World Music Cultures Center" of the Mos- cow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.