# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kokan-shiren
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:39:41.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kokan-shiren"
name: "Kokan Shiren"
slug: "kokan-shiren"
description: "Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet. He preached Buddhism at the Imperial court, and was noted for his poetry in the Literature of the Five Mountains tradition. He was the compiler of a thirty-chapter Buddhist history, the Genko Shakusho, the oldest extant account of Buddhism in Japan."
tagline: "Japanese Buddhist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kokan_Shiren.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1278-05-09"
deathDate: "1347"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.06
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.416056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%99%8E%E5%85%B3%E5%B8%88%E7%82%BC"
    title: "虎关师炼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokan_Shiren"
    title: "Kokan Shiren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokan_Shiren"
    title: "Kokan Shiren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%86"
    title: "کوکان شیرن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%99%8E%E9%96%A2%E5%B8%AB%E9%8C%AC"
    title: "虎関師錬"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Кокан Сирэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokan_Shiren"
    title: "Kokan Shiren"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Кокан Сирэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2091289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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