Nihon Soshun - Nippon Soshun

Japanese: 日峰宗舜 - にっぽう・そうしゅん

Year of death: Bunan 5.1.26 (1448.3.1)
Year of birth: Ōan 1/Shohei 23 (1368)
A Rinzai sect monk in the early Muromachi period. Born in Yamashiro (Kyoto Prefecture). His secular surname was Fujiwara. At the age of nine, he became a disciple of Muso Soseki at Hongen-an Temple in Tenryu-ji Temple under Gakuun Shuto, and after traveling to many places, he became a disciple of Muin Soin at Kaisei-ji Temple in Settsu (Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture). He accompanied Muin on his travels around the country and inherited his teachings. After Muin's death in 1410, he lived temporarily at several temples in Mino (Gifu Prefecture) and Owari (Aichi Prefecture) and read the Tripitaka scriptures. He later opened Zuisen-ji Temple in Inuyama, with Muin as its founder. Thirty years after it was confiscated by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu in the wake of the Ouchi Yoshihiro Rebellion, he took up residence at the Rinzai sect Myoshin-ji Temple in Kyoto in 1429, and rebuilt it with the support of Hosokawa Katsumoto. He is known as the founder of the Myoshin-ji Temple revival. In 1447, he became the first monk of the Kanzan school to reside at Daitokuji Temple, but died the following year. His posthumous name was Zengen Daisai Zenji.

(Masahiro Fujita)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：文安5.1.26(1448.3.1)
生年：応安1/正平23(1368)
室町前期の臨済宗の僧。山城(京都府)生まれ。俗姓は藤原。9歳で天竜寺本源庵の夢窓疎石の門弟岳雲周登に投じ,諸方行脚ののち摂津(兵庫県西宮市)海清寺の無因宗因に参じた。無因の各地歴住に同行し法を嗣いだ。応永17(1410)年,無因の没後,美濃(岐阜県)・尾張(愛知県)の数寺に仮寓し大蔵経を閲した。のち犬山に瑞泉寺を開き,無因を開山とした。大内義弘の乱がもとで足利義満に没収され30年を経た臨済宗京都妙心寺に,永享1(1429)年住し,細川勝元の支援を受け再建した。妙心寺中興の祖と称される。文安4(1447)年関山派としては初めて大徳寺に住したが,翌年亡くなった。諡号は禅源大済禅師。<参考文献>卍元師蛮『本朝高僧伝』41巻

(藤田正浩)

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