Ikkyu

Comprehensive information about Ikkyu including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Ikkyu (, Ikkyu Sojun , 1394–1481) (self-named: "Crazy Cloud") was an eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet. He had a great impact on the infusion of Japanese art and literature with Zen attitudes and ideals. This educational Ikkyu resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.