Shinjō 審乘 — Mid-Kamakura Japanese Tendai-Kegon (Yuánzōng) scholar, identifiable through the precisely-dated colophon of his sole surviving canonical work, Huāyán wǔjiào zhāng wèndá chāo 華嚴五教章問答抄 (KR6t0036, T72n2340). The colophon dates the composition to Shōwa 2 (= 1313), 8th month, 24th day, “at the hour of the boar,” at Yoshida-ji 吉田寺 in Iga Province, when Shinjō was 56 years old (secular age) — implying a birth date around 1258 CE.
He styled himself “Yuán-zōng last-branch śramaṇa” (圓宗末資沙門), placing him within the Tendai-Kegon synthesis lineage rather than the Tōdaiji mainstream Kegon tradition. The work was later recopied at Tōdaiji in Bun’an 4 (= 1447) by the amanuensis Kaishun Yūjō 快舜祐乘 — entering the medieval Tōdaiji Kegon canon at that point.
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001656. No further biographical detail is preserved.
Works:
- KR6t0036 Huāyán wǔjiào zhāng wèndá chāo 華嚴五教章問答抄 (T72n2340), 15 fasc., composed 1313 at Yoshida-ji (Iga Province) at age 56.