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was a Japanese Buddhist scholar. Together with Hajime Nakamura and others, he translated the Heart Sutra, the Prajnaparamita sutras, and the three main sutras of the Jodo sect. == Life == Born the son of the head priest of Kempon Hokke Myorenji Temple in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Kino moved at the age of four to Hiroshima Prefecture, to Honshoji (temple), when his father became head priest there. While he was a second year student at the School of Indian Philosophy, Literature Department, Imperial University of Tokyo, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army. At the end of World War II, in 1945, he was taken prisoner in Taiwan. In the same year his family died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. He was repatriated in 1946, resumed his studies and graduated in 1948. In the 1990s he became president of Hosen Gakuen College, Tokyo. He was also vice-president of Shogen Junior College in Minokamo, Gifu. He had his own radio show called ''Kino Kazuyoshi no sekai'' ("Kazuyoshi Kino's World") on Radio Nikkei. He died on December 28, 2013 of pneumonia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kazuyoshi Kino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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