Hōjū 法住 (1723–1800) — Edo-period Japanese Shingi-Shingon 新義眞言宗 scholar-monk and the thirty-second-generation patriarch of the Yamato Hase-dera 大和長谷寺 (the head-temple of the Buzan-ha 豐山派 sub-school of Shingi-Shingon). Native of Iwakami-gun 石上郡, Yamato Province (modern Nara Prefecture). Style-name Chidō 智幢.
Took the tonsure at age 16 under Kaihan-shōnin 快範上人. Studied vinaya at Hōryū-ji 法隆寺; subsequently ascended Mount Buzan 豐山 (Hase-dera) and studied under Mutō 無等, Shinkai 親快, and other Shingi-Shingon scholastic masters. Travelled widely through the Japanese provinces gathering doctrine and lecturing.
Extensive scholarly output (over thirty fascicles in surviving works), including:
- Dainichi-kyō gyokushin shō 大日經玉振鈔 (10 fasc.)
- Setsu hachi-ten gi 攝八轉義 (5 fasc.)
- Ho hachi-ten gi 補八囀義 (1 fasc.)
- Ryaku hachi-ten gi 略八囀義 (1 fasc.)
- Jikku-gi-ki 十句義記 (2 fasc.)
His principal work in the Taishō from the present period is:
- Himitsu innen kangen sōjō gi 祕密因縁管絃相成義 (KR6t0247, T79n2541) — composed as recorder (記) under the signature Konrei sramana Hōjū 根嶺沙門法住 (“Sramana Hōjū of Negoro Peak”).
DILA Buddhist Person Authority A000697; Wikidata Q11555018.
Source: DILA A000697; Bukkō (佛光) Buddhist Encyclopedia, p. 3349; standard Edo Buzan-ha biographical sources.