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Also Known As Anesaki Chōfū • Anesaki Masaharu • Anezaki Chōfū
Born July 25, 1873 • Kyōto • Japan
Died July 23, 1949 (aged 75) • Atami • Japan
Subjects Of Study Nichiren • Buddhism • Japanese religion • Kirishitan • religion
Hakuin
Buddhist priest
Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris
Edgar Quinet
French historian and poet
Jacob van Maerlant
Dutch poet
Nichiren
Nichiren
Japanese Buddhist monk
Shinran
Japanese Buddhist philosopher
Hōnen
Buddhist priest
Taishi Shōtoku: ink drawing
Taishi Shōtoku
Japanese regent and author
Shōmu
emperor of Japan
Ennin
Buddhist priest
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese statesman
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Japanese shogun
Watsuji Tetsurō
Japanese philosopher and historian
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Japanese feudal lord
Sugawara Michizane
Japanese scholar and statesman
Keizan Jōkin
Buddhist priest
Tokutomi Sohō.
Tokutomi Sohō
Japanese author
Dōkyō
Japanese Buddhist priest
Toba Sōjō
Japanese artist and priest
Dōshō
Japanese Buddhist priest
Portrait of Daidō Ichii by Kichizan with a laudatory inscription by Shōkai Reiken (not reproduced here), hanging scroll, ink on paper; in the Nara National Museum, Japan
Kichizan
Japanese painter

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