Nanpo Shoumin - Nanpo Shoumin

Japanese: 南浦紹明 - なんぽ・じょうみん

Year of death: Enkei 1.12.29 (1309.2.9)
Year of birth: 1235
A Rinzai sect monk from the Kamakura period. The founder of the Daio school. A native of Abe County, Suruga (Shizuoka Prefecture). Also called "Jomyo." He studied under Rankei Doryu at Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura, and in 1259 he traveled to Song China, where he studied under Kyodo Chigu and inherited the Dharma. He returned to Japan in 1267, and is known for the "Hita no Ki" that Kyodo gave to Nanpo when he left China, and "Ipponpu," in which Kyodo and 43 other famous monks contributed poems and prose. After returning to Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura, he entered Kotokuji Temple in Sawara, Chikuzen (Fukuoka Prefecture) in 1221, and in 1226 he moved to Sofukuji Temple in Dazaifu (later relocated to Hakata) in 1304 at the request of Emperor Go-Uda. He lived at Toko-an in An'i, Rakusai, and entered Manju-ji Temple the following year. He attempted to found a Kagen Zen temple but failed. He became the chief priest of Kencho-ji Temple. The title of "Entsu Daio Kokushi" was bestowed upon him by Emperor Go-Uda, the first such title in Japan. His successor was Shuho Myocho (Daito Kokushi), and his grandson was Kanzan Egen, who formed the source of the lineage of today's Rinzai Zen, and this is known as Zen of the Otokan school or the Otokanmon school. <References> Ogisu Jundo, "History of Medieval Japanese Zen"

(Takenuki Motokatsu)

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Japanese:

没年：延慶1.12.29(1309.2.9)
生年：嘉禎1(1235)
鎌倉時代の臨済宗の僧。大応派の祖。駿河(静岡県)安倍郡の人。「じょうみょう」ともいう。鎌倉の建長寺で蘭渓道隆に師事し,正元1(1259)年に入宋,虚堂智愚に参禅して嗣法する。文永4(1267)年に帰国するが,中国を離れるとき,虚堂が南浦に与えた「日多の記」,虚堂や43人の名僧が詩文を寄せた「一帆風」が知られる。鎌倉の建長寺に帰山したのち,文永7年,筑前(福岡県)早良の興徳寺に入寺し,文永9年太宰府の崇福寺(のち博多に移建)に移り,嘉元2(1304)年,後宇多上皇の勅請で京都に上る。洛西安井の韜光庵に寓し,翌年万寿寺に入寺する。嘉元禅刹(禅寺)を開創しようとしたがならなかった。建長寺住持となる。後宇多法皇に下賜された「円通大応国師」の国師号は日本における初例。法嗣に宗峰妙超(大燈国師),法孫に関山慧玄が出て今日の臨済禅の法系的源をなし,それは応燈関一流の禅,応燈関門流などと称する。<参考文献>荻須純道『日本中世禅宗史』

(竹貫元勝)

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