Ikkyū Sōjun

For the article on the manga named Ikkyu, to see Ikkyu. ---- Ikkyū Sōjun (1394 1481) was a Moine and Poète Japanese. Famous as of its alive, he knows a posterity by the influence which he had on the culture known as of Higashiyama and especially because he becomes, as from the time of Edo, the hero of a popular literature putting it in scene either child or adult, the Ikkyûbanashi .

Biography

Ikkyū is born during the Period Muromachi under the name of Senguikumaru ; he would be the son of the emperor Go-Komatsu. The specialists do not agree on this point. It enters to the monastery at five years and is shown very gifted for poetry.

It chooses at one period of its life to follow the monk Ken-O during 5 years. With died on this last, Ikkyū, which is called then Shūken , decides to follow the teaching of the branch of the Daitoku-ji while entering under the direction of Kasō Sōdon. Whereas he meditates on a boat, Ikkyū hears the cry of a crow or about a corbel and reached the Satori, he speaks about it with his Kasō which decides to make its successor of it but Ikkyū refuses. He leaves then the monastery of Katata to rove and find his mother who will die. Its personality and its character are always related on the women and the pleasures, on the other hand total of traditional Buddhist engagements (but he repudiated neither the Buddha nor his Masters, quite to the contrary). Its first disciple is Sôgen, it opens a temple in 1433 with Sakai. He then leaves to live as a hermit close to Kyōto.

In 1480, it publishes insane Nuages , a collection of poetries in traditional Chinese.

Towards is the end of its life, it taken of friendship (or of love?) for Shinmé, a blind man, who will not leave it any more to his last breath. He dies in 88 years of an acute phase of Malaria.

Influence

Ikkyū was nauseated by the forfeiture of the school Rinzai. It composed of many funny and erotic poems. There became very popular for its satires, and remains one of the outstanding figures of the Japan, but did not have a successor.

Ikkyū is also recognized for its Calligraphie S Zen.

References

Maryse Shibata, Masumi Shibata, Ikkyû, Clouds insane , translation of approximately 100 stanzas, 1991 Albin Michel
Hisashi Sakaguchi, Ikkyu , manga of 1996, edition in VI volumes: Glénat 1997

External bond

Ikkyū, Main Zen Rinzai

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