High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sokuhi Nyoitsu 即非如一 (1616 - 1671) was a Buddhist monk of the Obaku Zen sect, and was also an accomplished poet and calligrapher. His teacher Ingen Ryuki, Mokuan Shoto and Sokuhi were together known as the "Three Brushes of ?baku" or Obaku no Sanpitsu. Sokuhi was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, and 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.
