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*''Japanese'': 芥隠 ''(Kaiin)''

*''Japanese'': 芥隠 ''(Kaiin)''

Kaiin was a [[Zen]] monk from [[Kyoto|Kyoto's]] [[Nanzen-ji]] who played a prominent role in the expansion of [[Buddhism]] in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].

Kaiin was a [[Zen]] monk from [[Kyoto|Kyoto's]] [[Nanzen-ji]] who played a prominent role in the expansion of [[Buddhism]] in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. He was also a close advisor to several Ryukyuan kings.

Kaiin was a high-ranking monk at Nanzen-ji, one of Kyoto's ''Gozan'' (Five Mountains) head Zen temples, when he was invited to Ryûkyû by King [[Sho Taikyu|Shô Taikyû]] in [[1456]]. He also had experience practicing or studying at temples in [[Satsuma province]],<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 54.</ref> granting him some familiarity with Satsuma culture, if not Ryukyuan culture outright.

Kaiin was a high-ranking monk at Nanzen-ji, one of Kyoto's ''Gozan'' (Five Mountains) head Zen temples, when he was invited to Ryûkyû by King [[Sho Taikyu|Shô Taikyû]] in [[1456]]. He also had experience practicing or studying at temples in [[Satsuma province]],<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 54.</ref> granting him some familiarity with Satsuma culture, if not Ryukyuan culture outright.