Mu'an

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} '''Mu'an''' ({{zh|t=木庵性瑫|p=Mù'ān Xìngtāo}}; Japanese '''Mokuan Shōtō''') (1611–1684) was a Chinese Chan monk who followed his master Ingen to Japan in 1654. Mokuan was from Chuanchow in what was then Fukien Province.<ref name=":0">{{Citation |last=Ku |first=Yu-hsiu |title=The Ōbaku School in Japan—Ingen |date=2016 |work=History of Zen |pages=133–140 |url=http://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> He and Sokuhi Nyoitsu were the two disciples most involved in spreading Ingen's teachings.<ref name=":0" />

thumb|Portrait of Muyan.

== History == Together they founded the Ōbaku Zen school and Mampuku-ji, the school's head temple at Uji in 1661. In 1664, Muyan succeeded his master as chief of the temple and in 1671 established another temple called Zuishō-ji at Shirokane, Edo. He is honored as one of the Ōbaku no Sanpitsu.

His work is kept in a variety of museums, including the Smart Museum of Art,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Works {{!}} Mokuan Shoto (Ch: Muan Xingtao), 2nd Abbot of Manpukuji {{!}} People {{!}} Smart Museum of Art {{!}} The University of Chicago|url=http://smartcollection.uchicago.edu/people/1306/mokuan-shoto-ch-muan-xingtao-2nd-abbot-of-manpukuji;jsessionid=F9413570A1AFDBF26EA7B3463263DEFA/objects|access-date=2021-01-06|website=smartcollection.uchicago.edu}}</ref> University of Michigan Museum of Art,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Exchange: Snow: calligraphy scroll|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/resources/12908|access-date=2021-01-06|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Snow {{!}} UMMA Dialogues - Many Voices|url=http://tap.ummaintra.net/object/79543|access-date=2021-01-06|website=tap.ummaintra.net}}</ref> the Indianapolis Museum of Art,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Five character calligraphy|url=http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/71880/|access-date=2021-01-06|website=Indianapolis Museum of Art Online Collection|language=en}}</ref> the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,<ref>{{Cite web|title=In the Pot There is a Separate Heaven|url=https://collections.mfa.org/objects/602429/in-the-pot-there-is-a-separate-heaven;jsessionid=438AE8FD76692995F67E3BB0F1D7336C|access-date=2021-01-06|website=collections.mfa.org|language=en}}</ref> and the British Museum.<ref>{{Cite web|title=calligraphy; hanging scroll {{!}} British Museum|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1998-0119-0-1-JA|access-date=2021-01-06|website=The British Museum|language=en}}</ref>

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