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{{nihongo||成尋|'''Jōjin'''|lead=yes|extra=1011-1081}} was a Japanese [[Tendai]] monk  who documented his journey to the Chinese Buddhist centres of [[Tiantai Mountain|Mount Tiantai]] and [[Mount Wutai]] in 1072–1073 in {{nihongo||參天台五臺山記|San Tendai Godai san ki}}.<ref name="Orzech">{{Cite journal
| last = Orzech  | first = Charles D. | title = Looking for Bhairava: Exploring the Circulation of Esoteric Texts Produced by the Song Institute for Canonical Translation | journal = Pacific World  | publisher =IBS  | year =2006  | url = http://www.shin-ibs.edu/documents/pwj3-8/PWJ3-8.pdf | access-date = 2011-02-07}}</ref>
Jōjin's home monastery was [[Enryaku-ji]] on [[Mount Hiei]].<ref name="Adolphson">{{Cite book
| last = Adolphson  | first = Mikael S. | title = Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries | publisher = University of Hawaii Press | year =2007  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UjB8yiiGDykC&q=jojin&pg=PR7 | access-date = 2011-02-07| isbn = 9780824830137 }}</ref> He sent a cache of printed texts back to Japan in 1073 covering translations made since {{nihongo|[[:ja:ちょう然|Chōnen]]'s|奝然}} mission in 984.<ref name="Orzech" />
Literature related to Jōjin figures prominently in [[Nihonjinron]] - a genre of texts that focuses on issues of Japanese national and cultural identity. They appear in two early anthologies, the more famous being the [[Shin Kokin Wakashū]], the eighth imperially sponsored collection of poetry in Japanese, compiled circa 1205, where, it is preceded by the headnote, "Composed by his mother when the monk Jōjin went to China."<ref name="Borgen">{{Cite web | last = Borgen  | first =Robert | title = Japanese Nationalism: Ancient and Modern  | year =2000  | url = http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/papers/borgen_jojin.html | access-date = 2011-02-09}}</ref>
The poem attracted little attention until 1942, when the newspapers that evolved into the present [[Mainichi Shimbun]] published {{nihongo||愛国百人一首|Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu}}, literally meaning something like, "One Hundred Patriotic Poems by One Hundred Poets." The title refers to the familiar [[Hyakunin Isshu]], a medieval anthology of one hundred poems, each by a different poet. Because the poems came to be used in a card game played in Japanese homes every New Year, they are among the best known in the classical Japanese poetic canon.<ref name="Borgen"/>
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