Yes, takuan or takuan-zuke is named after the Zen monk Takuan Soho and this is because he is credited with inventing this way of preserving daikon radish. He lived from 1573 to 1645 and was a Zen ...

While offering tea to the monk Takuan Soho, Iemitsu (1604–51, the third Tokugawa shogun) had his servants fire a gun out in the garden. It was a loud bang, but Takuan did not bat an eyelid. He ...

The story goes like this: While offering tea to the monk Takuan Soho, Iemitsu (1604–51, the third Tokugawa shogun) had his servants out in the garden fire a gun. It was a loud bang, but Takuan ...

Built by Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-51) and donated in 1638 to Abbot Takuan Soho (1573-1645), Tokai-ji prospered as the third-largest temple in Edo, second only to Kan'ei-ji in ...