Hojo: regents who dominated the Kamakura period of Japanese history
hokku: first three lines of a renga, or linked verse, which later came to be written alone as a Haiku.
Honen (1133-1212): founder of the Jodo or Pure Land sect
Hosokawa: clan which served as advisers and regents for the Ashikaga.
Hsia Kuei (active ca. 1180-1230): Southern Sung Chinese painter whose stvle strongly influenced later Zen artists in Japan.
Hui-k'o (487-593): Second Patriarch of Chinese Ch'an, said to have cut off his arm to attract Bodhidharma's notice.
Hui-neng (638-713): Sixth Patriarch of Ch'an and founder of the Southern school of Ch'an which was transmitted to Japan.
Hung-jen (605-675): Fifth Patriarch of Ch'an and teacher of Hui-neng.
Ievasu (1542-1616): founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1615 to 1868.