Sokuhi Nyoitsu

Portrait of Sokuhi Nyoitsu (Sōfuku-ji)

Sokuhi Nyoitsu (即非如一, pinyin Jifei Ruyi, (1616–1671)) was a Buddhist monk of the Ōbaku Zen sect, and was also an accomplished poet and calligrapher. His teacher Ingen Ryūki, Mokuan Shōtō and Sokuhi were together known as the "Three Brushes of Ōbaku" or Ōbaku no Sanpitsu.[1]

  1. ^ Helen Josephine Baroni (2000). Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-2243-9.

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