kaizan

Updated: October 21, 2026

Only one priest, Kaizan of Myoshin-ji, had sufficient courage to oppose Soden's view, and the cause of the Tokugawa chief triumphed. Without a full knowledge of the Chinese ideographic script it is impossible to clearly understand either the charges preferred by the Tokugawa or the arguments employed in rebuttal.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era