Kōshō Uchiyama

Kōshō Uchiyama
Uchiyama preparing tea
TitleRōshi
Personal life
Born1912
DiedMarch 1998 (aged 85–86)
NationalityJapanese
EducationM.A. (Waseda Univ.)
Religious life
ReligionZen Buddhism
SchoolSōtō
Senior posting
Based inAntai-ji
PredecessorKodo Sawaki
SuccessorKoho Watanabe
Shohaku Okumura
Joichi Yamamoto
Shusoku Kushiya

Kosho Uchiyama (内山 興正, Uchiyama Kōshō; 1912 – March 13, 1998) was a Sōtō Zen monk, origami master, and abbot of Antai-ji near Kyoto, Japan.

Uchiyama was author of more than twenty books on Zen Buddhism and origami, of which the best known in the Western World are Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice and How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment.