Xuánqì 玄契 / Gimoku Genkei
Edo-period Japanese Sōtō-school Zen monk, styled Gimoku Genkei 宜默玄契 (also written 宣默玄契 in his own preface colophons). Dharma-student of Jirin Genshi 慈麟玄趾. Native of Izumo 雲州 (present-day Shimane). Exact lifedates not recorded in DILA (A000292).
Active as an editor of classical Cáodòng (Sōtō) Chán texts during the Genbun 元文 (1736–1741) and Kanpō 寬保 (1741–1744) eras. Produced the Taishō T47 n1987B recension of the Fǔzhōu Cáoshān Běnjì chánshī yǔlù 撫州曹山本寂禪師語錄 (KR6q0069) in two juan, dated Kanpō 1 spring (1741). The preface ascribes the primary compilation labour to Gimoku 宜默 and signs as “sojourner-monk of Izumo, Sen-moku Genkei” (雲州沙門宣默玄契). An earlier two-juan edition of the Dòngshān yǔlù by the same editorial circle was revised and re-collated by 慧印 Shigetsu Ein in 1739, producing the separately canonical T47 n1986A. Together Ein and Genkei are the principal figures of the Edo-period Japanese recovery of the Dòngshān–Cáoshān corpus as printed Zen classics.
The sponsor of the printing — at Shirahana-bayashi 白華林 — was Jitan kōji 慈湛居士 / Zenkai 禪海 (lay name Kan Hirotsugu 菅廣次, of the Sugawara 菅原 family from Nonomura 野野村 in Tanba 丹州, then resident in Kyōto); he also funded the companion Dòngshān printing.