Rev. Monen Ishikawa, is a Baikryu Teacher Specially Dispatched for the Dissemination of Soto Zen Buddhism, from Chosen-in Temple, Yamagata, Japan.
Born in 1969, he completed monastic training (ango) at Eiheiji, one of the head temples of the Soto Zen School, from March 1988 to March 1991. He was appointed as a Certified Itto Kyoshi Soto Zen teacher in October 1993. Rev. Ishikawa has served as a Baika-ryu Specialty Teacher since 2015, and was appointed as a Certified Seikyoshi Soto Zen teacher in 2018 and as a Baika-ryu First-Class Instructor (Ikkyu Shihan) in 2023.