# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jakushitsu-genko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:58:06.933Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jakushitsu-genko"
name: "Jakushitsu Genkō"
slug: "jakushitsu-genko"
description: "Jakushitsu Genkō  was a Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji. His poetry is considered to be among the finest of Zen poetry. He traveled to China and studied Ch'an with masters of the Linji school from 1320 to 1326, then returned to Japan and lived for many years as a hermit. It was only toward the end of his life that he decided to teach Zen to others."
tagline: "Japanese monk and poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jakushitsu_Genkoeigen-Ji-founder.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1290-06-23"
deathDate: "1367-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.84
  momentum:             8.000000000000002
  historical:           5.872786666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakushitsu_Genk%C5%8D"
    title: "Jakushitsu Genkō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakushitsu_Genk%C5%8D"
    title: "Jakushitsu Genkō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakushitsu_Genk%C5%8D"
    title: "Jakushitsu Genkō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakushitsu_Genk%C5%8D"
    title: "Jakushitsu Genkō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%82%E5%AE%A4%E5%85%83%E5%85%89"
    title: "寂室元光"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakushitsu_Genk%C5%8D"
    title: "Jakushitsu Genkō"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3075674"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump