Sakurai Keitoku

Statue of Sakurai Keitoku in the cemetery of Hômyô-in temple

• Born: 1834
• Died: 1885
• Japanese: 櫻井敬徳 (Sakurai Keitoku)

Sakurai Keitoku was head priest of the Miidera branch temple Hômyô-in (in Ôtsu, Shiga prefecture) in the early Meiji period.

He is known for his support of the Americans Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, who received monastic names from Keitoku in 1885. Keitoku died later that year.

References

• "Fenollosa no ai shita tera Hômyô-in" 「フェノロサの愛した寺ー法明院」, Ôtsu rekihaku dayori 大津歴博だより 113 (2018), Otsu Museum of History, p2.