Case 45: Zhaozhou’s Canvas Jacket

Case 45: Zhaozhou’s Canvas Jacket

  • Title in Sullivan (2021): Zhaozhou’s Canvass Jacket
  • Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Chao Chou’s Seven-Pound Cloth Shirt
  • Title in Sekida (2005): Jōshū’s Seven-Pound Hempen Shirt
  • Named characters (in Pinyin):
    • Zhaozhou Congshen (778-897)
  • Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
    • Chao Chou
  • Named characters (in Japanese):
    • Jōshū
  • Historical commentaries: 
    • Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
  • Modern commentaries:
    • Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koanspage 242, 1973)
  • Scholarly commentaries:
    • Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 80, 2016)