Dōshō Saikawa

Dōshō Saikawa Roshi is a Japanese Sōtō Zen master, abbot of Hossen-ji in Yamagata Prefecture and currently abbot of Kasuisai in Shizuoka Prefecture — one of the largest monastic training temples of the modern Sōtō school^[1]. For several years he was in charge of welcoming foreign visitors at Sōji-ji, one of the two head temples of Sōtō Zen, and spent nearly a decade in the United States serving in various Sōtō temples; this American period gave him an unusual fluency with non-Japanese practitioners by the standards of Sōtōshū prelates of his generation^[1][2].

In 2001 he conferred dharma transmission (shihō) on the French monk Olivier Reigen Wang-Genh, founder of Taikōsan Ryūmon-ji in Alsace — anchoring one of the principal European AZI temples in the modern Sōtōshū register^[1][2][3]. The Brazilian Daissen-ji (São Paulo) is also listed by the Sōtōshū under his and Genshō Roshi's authority, suggesting at least one further non-Japanese transmission, though the details have not been independently verified outside the Sōtōshū directory.