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{{nihongo|'''Sokuhi Nyoitsu'''|即非如一|[[pinyin]] ''Jifei Ruyi''|(1616&ndash;1671)}} was a Buddhist monk of the [[Ōbaku]] [[Zen]] [[Schools of Buddhism|sect]], and was also an accomplished poet and calligrapher.  His teacher [[Ingen|Ingen Ryūki]], [[Mu'an|Mokuan Shōtō]] and Sokuhi were together known as the "Three Brushes of Ōbaku" or [[Ōbaku no Sanpitsu]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Ku |first=Yu-hsiu |title=The Ōbaku School in Japan—Ingen |date=2016 |work=History of Zen |series=China Academic Library |pages=133–140 |url=https://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-981-10-1130-6_13 |access-date=2025-01-21 |place=Singapore |publisher=Springer Singapore |doi=10.1007/978-981-10-1130-6_13 |isbn=978-981-10-1129-0|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=Helen Josephine Baroni |title=Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |year=2000 |isbn=0-8248-2243-9}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=January 2025}}

==China==
Sokuhi was born in [[Fuzhou]], [[Fujian]], Southeast China. He was born into a declining Confucian scholar gentry family of the Chen clan. Life became difficult for him and his mother after his father died. He was ordained at 17 by [[Feiyin Tongrong]]. At 21 he became a disciple of [[Ingen]], abbot of [[Wanfu Temple]], [[Mount Huangbo]], [[Fujian]].  There he became a colleague of [[Muyan]]. In 1651 he nearly died due to asphyxiation while fighting a [[forest fire]] near the temple, and was suddenly enlightened.  Sokuhi received dharma transmission from Ingen and the next year received a promotion to high monastic office. He then became abbot of [[Chongsheng Temple (Fujian)|Chongsheng Temple]] on [[Mount Xuefeng]], also in [[Fujian]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A portrait of an Obaku monk: The life and religion of Jifei Ruyi (1616-1671)|author=Aihua Zheng|year=2009|publisher=Master's Thesis, University of Arizona}}</ref>

==Japan==
In 1654, Ingen and [[Muyan|Mu'an]] travelled to Japan and summoned Sokuhi, who followed them to Nagasaki in 1657.  Sokuhi was made abbot of [[Sōfuku-ji (Nagasaki)|Sōfuku-ji]], a Chinese temple built in 1629, and [[Mu'an]] was serving as abbot of [[Fukusai-ji]]. The two became known as ''nikanromon'' ("two gates to enlightenment"). In 1663 Sokuhi met Ingen for the first time in 12 years, after he received permission to go to [[Uji, Kyoto|Uji]] where he was abbot of [[Manpuku-ji]]. In 1664 Sokuhi left for Nagasaki intending to return to China but was convinced to stay by lord of [[Kokura]] and found a new temple [[Fukuju-ji (Kitakyushu)|Fukuju-ji]] on [[Mount Kujū]] (now in [[Fukuoka Prefecture|Fukuoka]]). In 1668 he passed this position to his Japanese disciple [[Houn Myodo]] and returned to Sōfuku-ji to retire. He became ill in 1670 and died at Nagasaki in 1671. He was cremated and his remains were placed at Fukuju-ji and Sōfuku-ji.

==See also==
*[[Japanese Buddhism]]
*[[Ōbaku]]

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