Daikyū Sōkyū 大休宗休 (Ōnin 2 → 1468; Tenbun 18 / 1549-04-08), Late-Muromachi Japanese Rinzai-Zen master, dharma-heir of 禪傑 Tokuhō Zenketsu (1419–1506), one of 宗深 Sekkō Sōshin’s “Four Branches” (Shihatsu 四派). Style-name (字) Daikyū 大休; dharma-name Sōkyū 宗休. Posthumous title Enman Honkō Kokushi 圓滿本光國師 — with the later full title Daitetsu Enman Honkō Kokushi 大徹圓滿本光國師 — bestowed by Emperor Ōgimachi 正親町天皇 in 1582 (Tenshō 10), some thirty-three years after Daikyū’s death. Native of Settsu 攝津 province.
Tonsured young at Myōshin-ji; received Tokuhō’s transmission at Saigen-in 西源院; succeeded as eighth-generation abbot of Myōshin-ji 妙心寺, entering Eishō 13 (1516). Founder of Reiun-ji 靈雲寺 (later Reiun-in 靈雲院 sub-cloister at Myōshin-ji) at the patronage of the Arima family 有馬氏 of Settsu; also of Kentō-an 見桃菴 at the foot of Mount Daiun-zan, established with the support of Hosokawa Tsunamoto 細川氏綱. His recorded sayings circulate as the Kentō-roku 見桃録 (the present text KR6t0278), edited two centuries later. Daikyū was the principal restorer of the Tokuhō sub-line and a key transmitter of the Myōshin-ji curriculum into the Sengoku-period elite (the Hosokawa, Arima, and Hatakeyama families were principal patrons).