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Japan: 'The Bearded Ikkyu', Natori Shunsen (1886-1960)

Japan: 'The Bearded Ikkyu', Natori Shunsen (1886-1960)

Ikkyū (一休宗純 Ikkyū Sōjun, 1394–1481) (self-named: 'Crazy Cloud') was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet.

He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals.

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