ABSTRACT
In late January 1999 I travelled to the village of Hara in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture to visit Zen Master Nakajima Genjo (1915-2000), the 84-year-old abbot of Shoinji temple and head of the Hakuin branch of the Rinzai Zen sect. Shoinji is famous as the home temple of Zen Master Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768), the great medieval reformer of Rinzai Zen. Although I didn't know it at the time, Genjo had little more than another year to live.
