Tōyō Eichō

"All four pillars of enlightenment Crumble at once - See! See! Moonlight wreathing coral branches - What does it mean? Now all grows as dark As the palace of hell in The grasp of Satan / Katsu!"

"For long years a bird in a cage Now, flying along with the clouds of heaven."

"Toyo Eicho ... drew his material from sutras, recorded sayings of Chinese Zen masters, Taoist texts, Confucian texts, and Chinese poetry."

"Zen Buddhist monk (Toyo Eicho, 1428-1504) of the Rinzai sect... was appointed juji of the in 1481 and founded the Shorin-ji temple at Mino, where , where he died."

"If this manuscript was indeed compiled by Daito Kokushi, it would rank as the first capping phrase collection in Japan, predating Toyo Eicho's Kuzoshi by approximately 150 years."

"Toyo Eicho's Kuzoshi... exists only as a single unidentified and fragmented text; it does not appear to be a handbook used by monks appending phrases to koans as a regular assignment in koan practice."