Kyōga 景雅 — Late-Heian Japanese Kegon-school lay scholar, affiliated with Ninna-ji 仁和寺 (the imperial Shingon monastery in Kyōto) and holder of the senior monastic court-rank Dainagon-hōkyō 大納言法橋. DILA Buddhist Person Authority A001246 unusually marks him “not a monk” (note type=“monk”>否</note) — indicating he was a lay-renunciate or aristocratic Buddhist scholar rather than a regularly-ordained monk.
Two of his Kegon works survive in the Taishō canon, both dated:
- KR6t0025 Huāyán lùn cǎo 華嚴論草 (T72n2329), 1 fasc., copied at Tōdaiji on the 30th day of the intercalary 4th month of Bunji 5 = 1189 — draft notes on Fa-zang’s Wǔ jiào zhāng.
- KR6t0043 Jīn shīzǐ zhāng kānwén 金師子章勘文 (T73n2346), 1 fasc. — examination notes on Fa-zang’s Jīn shīzǐ zhāng.
The Bunji 5 (1189) date places him in the immediate generation before Myōe (高辨, 1173–1232), making him a unique late-Heian / early-Kamakura witness to aristocratic-lay engagement with Kegon doctrine — a current parallel to but institutionally distinct from the monastic Tōdaiji-Kōzan-ji Kegon tradition.