Shun’oku Myōha 春屋妙葩 (Ōchō 1 → 1311; Kakei 2 / 1388-09-13), Late-Kamakura → Nanbokuchō Japanese Rinzai-Zen master and the most powerful single figure in the Gozan 五山 (“Five-Mountain”) establishment of the second half of the fourteenth century. Posthumous title Chikaku Fumyō Kokushi 智覺普明國師, bestowed by Emperor Go-En’yū 後圓融院 in Kōryaku 1 (1379-12-28); style-name (字) Shun’oku 春屋. Native of Awa 阿波 province; nephew (sister’s son) of 夢窓疎石 Musō Soseki (1275–1351), entered the Sangha as a youth under Musō and received transmission from him at Tenryū-ji 天龍寺. Successively abbot (住山) of Tenryū-ji 天龍寺, Nanzen-ji 南禪寺, Rinsen-ji 臨川寺, and re-installed at Tenryū-ji a second time. In 1379 he was appointed the first Sōroku 僧錄 — head of the newly-established Bakufu Office of Monastic Registry (Sōroku-shi 僧錄司) which oversaw all Gozan and Jissetsu temples — making him the de-facto administrator of the entire metropolitan Zen establishment. A leading patron of Gozan-bungaku (Five-Mountain literature) and of the printing of Sōng / Yuán Zen texts. Disciples included 周信 Gidō Shūshin and 中津 Zekkai Chūshin, the two principal voices of mature Gozan Zen letters.