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*''Died: [[1623]]''
*''Japanese'': 亀洲宗鶴 ''(Kishuu Soukaku)''
Kishû Sôkaku was a [[Soto|Sôtô]] [[Zen]] monk of the [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]].
Born in [[Owari province]], he became the ninth abbot of Kongô-in in Takefu, in what is now [[Fukui prefecture]]. He also founded a temple called Ryûkai-ji in [[Osaka]]. In [[1599]], he took up residence at [[Gekkyo-in|Gekkyô-in]], a temple in [[Fushimi]], and converted it from [[Shingon]] Buddhism to Sôtô Zen.
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==References==
*"Shiryôhen kaidai shiryô honkoku: Edo dachi ni tsuki oose watashi dome" 「史料編解題・史料翻刻「江戸立二付仰渡留」」, in Kamiya Nobuyuki 紙屋敦之 (ed.), ''Kinsei Nihon ni okeru gaikoku shisetsu to shakai hen'yô 3: taikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容(3)-大君外交解体を追う-』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p45-46n45.
*"[http://www.kyotofukoh.jp/report357.html Gekkyô-in]," Kyoto fukoh 京都風光.
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]