Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Junkyo Oishi

[Spring Orchid]

"Bloom as a youth,
Flourish as an adult,
mature and wither naturally
without regret."

Yone Ohishi
Geisha name Tsumakichi


Oishi Junkyo
Ama-san
"Mother of the Disabled"

14 March 1888 Osaka
Eldest daughter of working class
Chuzo and Iwa Ohishi
who owned Funai-zusi
(a sushi restaurant)

look to Bukkoin Temple in
Tamashinaku Kyoto
sub- temple of
Kajuu-ji

Kaso-an, nearby,
has a museum about her

(1968-1980)

She:
printing
(copy of her memoir)
calligraphy
writing books
helping the handicapped

taught late to read and write

a bird uses its mouth to sustain itself

* Dr. Stuart Chandler ("The Pluralism Project")
is translating the memoirs of
Junkyo Ohishi
into English

He has written a book on Chinese Foguang.