Shì Shídé 釋拾得 (fl. ca. 800–850?)
The Tiāntái 天台 monastic eccentric paired with Hánshān 寒山 釋寒山 in the Hánshān shī jí tradition and identified with the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra in the cultic frame established by the pseudo-Lǘqiū-Yìn preface to the collection. His name 拾得 (“Picked-up”) is itself a hagiographic etymology: he was supposedly found as a foundling by the monk Fēnggān 豐干 and raised at the Guóqīng sì 國清寺 as a kitchen-helper. He stored his and Hánshān’s table-scraps in bamboo tubes and shared them with Hánshān when he visited the monastery.
His extant verse — preserved as appendix to the Hánshān shī jí KR4c0002 — comprises ca. 50 short pieces, many of them jì (Buddhist gāthā) in voice and style virtually indistinguishable from Hánshān’s; modern scholarship (Iritani, Henricks, Rouzer) generally treats the Hánshān and Shídé corpora as a continuum and questions the integrity of the attribution split. His dates are unknown; floruit ca. 800–850 follows the dating bracket adopted for the Hánshān corpus as a whole.