Sekizan (8th century)n 赤山大明神 (posthumously Sekizan Daimyôjin) belonged to the group of Japanese scholars and monks who travelled to China and subsequently spread Buddhist teachings in Japan, thus transmitting Chinese written culture; he is one of the patriarchs of the Japanese Buddhist Tendai sect and is venerated in the Sekisan Zenin temple in Kyoto. At the top right is the full, posthumous name of the "patriarch", 皇城表鬼門赤山大明神 (Kôjôhyokimon Sekisan Daimyôjin); on the left is the temple seal. (Commentary: Siegmar Nahser, 2013)