Just to share an insteresting discovery, a site about all the abbots of Eiheiji since Dogen in Japanese but with plenty of interesting documents. With a special page on Niwa Zenji, Nishijima's teacher and our ancestor in the lineage:

http://eiheizen.jimdo.com/永平寺77世-丹羽廉芳禅師/

and a magnificent portrait of the guy.



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