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{{Short description|Japanese Zen Buddhist and abbot (1920–2008)}}
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'''Sobin Yamada''' was the 26th abbot of [[Shinju-an]], a subtemple of the [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] temple of [[Daitoku-ji]] in [[Kyoto]].<ref name="Museum"/> Shinju-an is the memorial temple for [[Ikkyu]]. Yamada studied at [[Hanazono University|Hanazono]], a [[Rinzai]] university in Kyoto, and at [[Ryukoku University]].{{cn|date=July 2024}}

There is a [[Japanese calligraphy|calligraphic]] work by Yamada in the [[Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)]]; it was commissioned by [[Yoshiko Kakudo]] for the museum.<ref name="Museum"/><ref name="Mellott-2017">{{cite journal |last1=Mellott |first1=Richard |title=Yoshiko Kakudo (1934—2016): Curator, Artist, Philanthropist |journal=Impressions |date=2017 |volume=38 |pages=176-87 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/45201273 |access-date=24 July 2024}}</ref>

Yamada was born in 1920 and died in 2008.<ref name="Museum"/>

==Bibliography==

* ''Zen at Daitoku-ji'' (1974), with Dr. [[Jon Carter Covell]]<ref name="Zainie-1977">{{cite journal |last1=Zainie |first1=Carla M |title=Zen at Daitoku-ji. by Jon Covell, Yamada Sōbin |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=1977 |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=361-62 |doi=10.2307/2053746 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2053746 |access-date=24 July 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* ''Unraveling Zen's Red Thread: Ikkyu's Controversial Way'' (1980), Dr. Jon Carter Covell and Abbot Sobin Yamada, 1980, HollyM International, Elizabeth, New Jersey, {{ISBN|0-930878-19-1}}<ref name="Kodera-1985">{{cite journal |last1=Kodera |first1=T James |title=Review: [Untitled] Unraveling Zen's Red Thread: Ikkyū's Controversial Way. by Jon Carter Covell, Abbot Sobin Yamada |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=1985 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=838-40 |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2056479 |doi=10.2307/2056479|access-date=24 July 2024|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Buddhism in Japan]]
*[[List of Rinzai Buddhists]]

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