# Yishan Yining

> Yishan Yining was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to Japan. Before monkhood his family name was Hu. He was born in 1247 in Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang, China. He was a monk of the Linji school during the Yuan dynasty of China, and subsequently a Rinzai Zen master who rose to prominence in Kamakura Japan. He was one of the chief disseminators of Zen Buddhism among the new militarized nobility of Japan, a calligrapher and a writer. Mastering a variety of literary genres and being a prolific teacher, he is mostly remembered as the pioneer of Japanese Gozan Bungaku literature, that recreated in Japan the literary forms of Song dynasty.

*Buddhist monk (1247–1317)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1247
- **Died:** 1317-11-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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## Sources
- [一宁](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%81)
- [Yishan Yining](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining)
- [Yishan Yining](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining)
- [Yishan Yining](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining)
- [一山一寧](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%80%E5%AF%A7)
- [Yishan Yining](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining)
- [Ишань Инин](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD)
- [Nhất Sơn Nhất Ninh](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nh%E1%BA%A5t_S%C6%A1n_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_Ninh)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2499160)

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