Background
Gyokai was born in Musashi Province (near Edo). His family name was Fukuda.
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Career
He became a priest at the Denzuin Temple in Tokyo while young. At the Meiji Restoration in 1868, he organized an association of leading Buddhist priests throughout Japan for the purpose of insuring strict observance of the Buddhist code of behavior by all priests, especially in protest to the Government measure of permitting priests to eat meat and marry. The following year, he became chief priest of the Daikyom Temple, which was a hybrid institution between a Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine. He returned to the Denzuin Temple as its chief priest (1877). He became chief priest at the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo (1879) and concurrently Superintendent of the Joao Sect headquarters. He became editor-in-chief of a new edition of the Dalzokyo, or Complete Sutras, to be pub-lished in modern type (1882). Retired to the Honseiji Temple in Fukagawa, Tokyo (1885). After establishing unity of all denominations of the Jodo Sect, he became chief priest of the Chion-in Temple in Kyoto. A poet, he was a dose mend of two noted poets, Seifu Takasaki and Atsuko Saisho.
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1879