Hamada (Aboshi, Himeji), Harima
Hamada, in the Aboshi area of modern Himeji in Hyōgo Prefecture (the old province of Harima), Japan, was the birthplace, in 1622, of Bankei Yōtaku, the Rinzai Zen master celebrated for his accessible teaching of the 'Unborn' (fushō).
Teachers who lived here