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A Remarkably Questionable 'Fuke Shakuhachi' Patriarch Pedigree
- Kyōto Myōan-ji's All Fabricated "Origin":
- Shinchi Kakushin, Kōkoku-ji, Kyochiku Zenji ... With Exact Death Dates?
- The Detailed List of Invented Temple Ancestors, Now Also Presented Online
明暗法系世代 - MYŌAN HŌKEI SEDAI
MYŌAN DHARMA GENERATIONS, or: MYŌAN TEMLE PATRIARCH GENEALOGY?
Primary reference: Genealogy c/o Kyōto Myōan-ji's present website
Left: "Sakyamuni Descending the Mountain After Asceticism."
S. Sung Dynasty Chinese painting by Liang Kai, c. 1140 to c. 1210.
Tokyo National Museum. Source: Wikipedia.
Right: Fuke Zenji ringing his bell. Painting by Kōgetsu Sōgan, 1642.
Source: https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Puhua.html
1628-1795: From 'Rōnin-Komosō' Beggar to 'Rōnin-Komusō' Pseudo-monk:
- The Questionable Fabrication of "Family Trees" via Shinchi Kakushin
and Fuke Zenji back to Shakyamuni Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), himself.
BACKGROUND:
1628: In the Kaidō honsoku it is stated very clearly that the 'Komosō' "mat monks" had no origin, no history -
that is of course apart from their very well expressed honoring Chinese Monk Fuke as their number one ideological role model:
1628: The Kaidō honsoku Fuke-komosō Credo Version 1
Early 1640s: Rinzai Zen abbot Isshi Bunshu invents and names the 'Komusō, inserts Shinchi Kakushin/Hottō Kokushi
and some "four Chinese Buddhist laymen" into shakuhachi history.
1646 at the latest: Abbot Isshi Bunshu's Letter to
"a Proto-Komusō" named Sandō Mugetsu
Late 1640s-1650s?: Somehow, somewhen?, a top header "celebrating" Hottō Kokushi and those four Buddhist laymen
is added to some copy, maybe even the original?, of the Kaidō honsoku.
Late 1640s?: The Kaidō honsoku "Version 3" Copy
1664: Hottō Kokushi appears for the first time in public messaging as "founder" of the 'Komusō'.
1664: The Shichiku shoshinshū Music Treatise
by Nakamura Sōsan. The First 'Komusō'
'Shakuhachi-Rōnin' Ever Witnessed in Kyōto?
1735: The name 'Kyochiku', the alleged Myōan Shakuhachi Tradition "founder", and also "temple founder"?, appears for the very first time in print.
1735: Kyōto Myōan-ji Temple Chief Administrator
Kandō Ichiyū's Letter about 'Sankyorei-fu',
the "Three Non-Dual Spirit Music Notations"
1795: Still, in the Kyotaku denki document, only 'Kichiku', not 'Kyochiku', is mentioned!
After ca. 1665? to 1795: The Kyotaku denki Original Text,
1981 edition, the Kyotaku denki kokujikai Illustrations,
and Tsuge Gen'ichi's 1977 Translation
1795:
The All Invented 'Shahuhachi' "Ancestors" Presented in Kyotaku denki:
The sixteen generations of the fake Chō family.
Source: Tsuge Gen'ichi, 1977, page 49.
Four centuries of fake ancestors from 1254 to a. 1644
beginning with Shinchi Kakushin and Kichiku, ending with Ton'ō and Mufū.
Not a single date of death is given there.
Source: Tsuge Gen'ichi, 1977, pages 52-53.
Nakatsuka Chikuzen, 1979 (orig. 1936-1939): 2 Genealogies with Kyochiku Zenji at the Top.
On pages 144-147, the Nakatsuka Chikuzen 1979 re-issued publication presents a Kyōto Myōan Temple "ancestors" list
in which the last listed patriarch personality mentioned is the 31st Myōan Tradition "leader" named 'Dōko Dōshi Zenji',
堂固塔司禅師,
who, acc. to the list, died in Ka'ei year 3 (1850), on the 23rd day of the 4th month.
The precise Western equivalent of which is, of course:
March 6, 1850 - ref. Zöllner/Tsuchihashi, the Nengo Calc web service:
Link: http://bibliothek.kyoto.uni-tuebingen.de/NengoCalc/index.htm
Ryōen Kyochiku 'Zenji' is listed as "founder" of 'Myōan Shakuhachi',
his precise date of death given as Einin year 6 (1298), 7th month, 28th day.
Precise Western equivalent: May 9th, 1298.
Source: http://bibliothek.kyoto.uni-tuebingen.de/NengoCalc/index.htm.
How come that "1298" is the exact same death year as that of Shinchi Kakushin's
who is known to have lived from 1207 to 1298?
The concluding entry in this document (page 150, far left) features the alleged
34th temple leader named 'Saku-hi koji',
咋非居士, i.e. "Layman" Saku-hi.
Saku-hi's date of death is given precisely as Meiji 28 (1895), 9th month, 10th day,
i.e. September 10, 1895.
Photo of Jishō Sakuhi Koji,
自笑昨非居士,
posted online on December 23, 2015,
by Dean Delbene c/o Myoan Shakuhachi Blogspot.
Image source: http://myoanshakuhachi.blogspot.com/2015/
1972:
明暗寺所伝古典本曲要説
MYōAN-JI SHODEN KOTEN HONKYOKU YŌSETSU
"Outline of the Myōan Temple Tradition Classical Honkyoku"
A small pamphlet pamphlet published by the Myōan Temple in 1972 presents a quite similar ancestor genealogy.
1979:
明暗尺八通解
MYŌAN SHAKUHACHI TSŪKAI
"Myōan Shakuhachi Explained"
Pages 16 & 17 in Tomimori Kyozan, 1979.
Some years ago Chicago-based Jeffrey Jones and his Myōan Taizan-ha teacher Morimasa Horiuchi, d. 2021, published their proposal for a partial translation
of Morimasa's shakuhachi sensei Tomimori Kyozan's 1979 Myōan Taizan-ha genealogy:
Komuso.com: "Taizan-ha History" - "A chronological list of head kanshu of Myoan-ji temple"
NOW, as of 2025, the above is even publicly accessible, on full display, online here:
'Myōan hōkei sedai', "The Generations of Myōan-ji Dharma Lineage"
A detailed description, analysis and thorough fact check is in the making as of Spring, 2025.
明暗開祖 虚竹了円禅師 永仁六戊戌年七月二十八日寂
当寺開山 天外明普座元禅師 建武二乙亥八月十八日寂
当寺三世 雲外禅与禅師 暦応三庚辰二月六日寂
当寺四世 定雲智令禅師 応安三庚戌正月二十日寂
当寺五世 廓外瑞雲禅師 康応元己己三月十七日寂
当寺六世 洞山瑞秀禅師 応永二十癸己六月四日寂
当寺七世 泉山秀陽禅師 正長元戌申九月二十四日寂
当寺八世 都月秀仙禅師 長禄三己卯十一月七日寂
当寺九世 秀月廓勢禅師 文亀二壬戌四月三日寂
当寺十世 含了慶陽禅師 天文三申午五月十六日寂
当寺十一世 真月順了禅師 永禄十一戌辰正月十七日寂
当寺十二世 閑月露身禅師 慶長四己亥七月十六日寂
当寺十三世 有心法快禅師 寛永十癸酉十月五日寂
（十四世）
当寺中興 淵月了源座元禅師 元禄八乙亥戴五月二十三日寂
当寺十五世 月山宗桂禅師 享保八癸卯八月二十八日寂
当寺十六世 一室幻堂禅師 享保三戌戌十二月三日寂
当寺十七世 再興快山眠好禅師 元文五庚申七月朔日寂
当寺十八世 寛堂一宥禅師 元文三戌午二月二十三日寂
（十九世）
興国第一座当寺前住正山理中塔司禅師 宝暦七丁丑四月十八日寂
（二十世）
興国第一座当寺前住眠山一圭塔司禅師 明和元甲申九月初二日寂
（二十一世）
当寺前住曜山快旭座元禅師 天明五乙巳年七月二十七日寂
当寺二十二世 静山汶水首座禅師 安永八己亥年九月十四日寂
当寺二十三世院代 是即暫道首座 天明四甲辰年八月十九日寂
当寺二十四世院代 明道寛哲首座 寛政十二庚申年十一月二十三日寂
当寺二十五世院代 清山一規首座 享和二壬戌年八月十八日寂
当寺二十六世院代 空外文道首座 文政八乙酉年三月九日寂
当寺二十七世院代 天元普玉首座 文政七甲申十一月二十四日寂
当寺二十八世院代 空貫宗崔大徳 文政八乙酉年正月二日寂
当寺再興二十九世 心外一掌首座 天保十五甲辰年三月二十六日寂
当寺三十世院代 東岳永図 天保十四年癸卯三月辞職
（三十一世）
興国第一座当寺前住堅
堂固塔司禅師 嘉永三年庚戌四月二十三日寂
明暗三十二世看主 魯堂元協居士 安政六年己未秋八月十三日寂
明暗三十三世看主 観妙玄堂居士 慶応二年丙寅冬十一月朔日寂
明暗三十四世看主 自笑昨非居士 明治二十八年九月十日寂
明暗三十五世看主 対山孝道居士 大正三年十一月二十二日寂
明暗三十六世看主 紫山治道居士 昭和十三年十一月二十七日寂
明暗三十七世看首 琅庵無竹居士 昭和三十二年三月二十四日寂
明暗三十八世看首 了庵止山 昭和五十三年十一月十八日寂
明暗三十九世看首 虚庵閑斎 昭和五十一年二月十七日寂
明暗四十世看首 普庵宗心 平成十年十月二十一日寂
明暗四十一世看首 抱庵一吹 平成三年四月就任
明暗四十二世看首 清庵玄心 平成二十九年五月就任
（～現在に至る）
再興明暗寺 初代住職 安田天山 昭和二十五年就任
再興明暗寺 二代住職 平住台山 昭和二十八年就任
再興明暗寺 三代住職 平住仰山 昭和五十九年就任
（～現在に至る）
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