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Sōgen Eguchi
Sōgen, Sogen or Sougen (written: 宗現, 宗源 or 曹玄) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese Zen Buddhist * *, Japanese Zen Buddhist {{DEFAULTSORT:Sogen Japanese masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sōgen Asahina
was an influential Japanese Rinzai zen master and founder of Nippon wo Mamoru kai. He was also a prolific writer and a calligrapher. Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Asahina graduated from Nihon University. He studied at Myōshin-ji in Kyoto and at Engaku-ji in Kamakura. He rose to become the head () of the Engaku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. Also, he was a professor at Komazawa University. Asahina's works include ''Zen'' (bilingual, English and Japanese; 1954), ''Nippon no Zen'' (1959) and commentaries on the ''Hekiganroku'' and ''Rinzairoku''. Asahina was also an accomplished calligrapher. Television shows, including ''Mito Kōmon'' and ''Ōoka Echizen'', featured his writing in their title screens. His writing can also be seen in the memorial to Gichin Funakoshi at Engaku-ji. Sources This article incorporates material from 朝比奈宗源 (''Asahina Sōgen'') in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on March 16, 2008. External links日本全国書誌 JAPANESE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHYNa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogen Kato
was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom. It was concluded he had likely died in November 1978, aged 79, and his family had never announced his death. Relatives had rebuffed attempts by ward officials to see Kato in preparations for Respect for the Aged Day later that year, citing many reasons from him being a "human vegetable" to becoming a sokushinbutsu (Buddhist mummy). An autopsy could not determine the cause of Kato's death. The discovery of Kato's remains sparked a search for other missing centenarians lost due to poor recordkeeping by officials. A study following the discovery of Kato's remains found that police did not know if 234,354 people over the age of 100 were still alive. Poor recordkeeping was to blame for many of the cases, officials admitted. One of Kato's relatives was found guilty of fraud; his relatives claimed ¥9,500,000 (US$117,939; £72,030) of the pension meant f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omori Sogen
was a Japanese Rinzai Rōshi, a successor in the Tenryū-ji line of Rinzai Zen, and former president of Hanazono University, the Rinzai university in Kyoto, Japan. He became a priest in 1945. Biography Ōmori Sōgen was a teacher of Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū swordsmanship,Jiki Shinkage-ryū Kenjutsu with Ōmori Sōgen. Japan, Nihon Kobudo series, filmed during the 1970s by the Japanese Ministry of Education in a series on many of the traditional koryū. DVD, 2005. and a in the Taishi school of . He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
