Ōta Dōkan

Japanese samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk

1432 CE to 1486 CE

Ōta Dōkan (1432 - August 25, 1486), also known as Ōta Sukenaga or Ōta Dōkan Sukenaga, is a Japanese samurai warrior-poet, military tactician and Buddhist monk.

Ōta Sukenaga takes the tonsure (bald scalp) as a Buddhist priest in 1478, and he also adopts the Buddhist name, Dōkan, by which he is known today.

Dōkan is best known as the architect and builder of Edo Castle (now the Imperial Palace) in what is today modern Tokyo; and he is considered the founder of the castle town which grows up around that Ōnin era fortress.

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