# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yishan-yining
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:31:26.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yishan-yining"
name: "Yishan Yining"
slug: "yishan-yining"
description: "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."
tagline: "Buddhist monk (1247–1317)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YishanEVk3bvUEo7Q7Xx_4MWX5GA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1247"
deathDate: "1317-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.51
  momentum:             1.707953063885267
  historical:           7.632328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%AE%81"
    title: "一宁"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining"
    title: "Yishan Yining"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining"
    title: "Yishan Yining"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining"
    title: "Yishan Yining"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%80%E5%AF%A7"
    title: "一山一寧"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yishan_Yining"
    title: "Yishan Yining"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Ишань Инин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nh%E1%BA%A5t_S%C6%A1n_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_Ninh"
    title: "Nhất Sơn Nhất Ninh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2499160"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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