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Zen Buddhist monk (Toyo Eicho, 1428-1504) of the Rinzai sect... was appointed juji of the in 1481 and founded the Shorin-ji temple at Mino, where , where he died.

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Tōyō Eichō (Japanese: 東陽英朝, 1428 - August 24, 1504) was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk of Rinzai school. He was the 53rd abbot of Daitoku-ji and 13th abbot of Myōshin-ji. See also the Japanese Wikipedia article 東陽英朝 (in Japanese).

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All four pillars of enlightenment
Crumble at once -
See! See!
Moonlight wreathing coral branches -
What does it mean?
Now all grows as dark
As the palace of hell in
The grasp of Satan / Katsu!

If this manuscript was indeed compiled by Daito Kokushi, it would rank as the first capping phrase collection in Japan, predating Toyo Eicho's Kuzoshi by approximately 150 years.

Toyo Eicho ... drew his material from sutras, recorded sayings of Chinese Zen masters, Taoist texts, Confucian texts, and Chinese poetry.

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