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*''Born: [[1834]]''
*''Died: [[1885]]''
*''Japanese'': 櫻井敬徳 ''(Sakurai Keitoku)''
Sakurai Keitoku was head priest of [[Homyo-in|Hômyô-in]] 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.
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==References==
*"Fenollosa no ai shita tera Hômyô-in" 「フェノロサの愛した寺ー法明院」, ''[https://www.rekihaku.otsu.shiga.jp/file/tayori/tayori_113_2019.pdf Ôtsu rekihaku dayori]'' 大津歴博だより 113 (2018), Otsu Museum of History, p2.
[[Category:Religious Figures]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]