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Imakita Kōsen (今北 洪川 3 August 1816 – 16 January 1892) was a Japanese Rinzai Zen rōshi and Neo-Confucianist. Kosen did his Zen training under Daisetsu Shoen (1797–1855) at Sōkoku-ji and received inka from Gisan Zenkai at Sōgen-ji in Okayama. Kosen was instrumental in bringing Zen to lay practitioners and to the west. Kosen’s Dharma heir Soyen Shaku participated in the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago which introduced Soyen Shaku’s student D.T.