Background
Tetsugen was born in the seventh year of the Kan'ei era in 1630, in Kumamoto, Japan.
鉄眼 道光
Tetsugen was born in the seventh year of the Kan'ei era in 1630, in Kumamoto, Japan.
He became a priest of the Jodo Shinshu sect at the age of 13. When Ingen came to Japan, Tetsugen became his follower in the Ōbaku school.
In 1681, Tetsugen oversaw the production of the first complete woodcut edition (consisting of around 60,000 pieces) of the Chinese Buddhist sutras in Japan.
Tetsugen died at the age of 53 in the second year of the Tenna era (1682).