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Setsugai 雪外

Japanese, active late 15th–early 16th century
BiographyVirtually nothing is known about Setsugai. He is assumed to have been a monk. His name, Setsugai, is a Chinese-style sobriquet, for which reason he is thought perhaps to have been originally of Chinese or Korean extraction. Beyond this scant speculation, however, his identity and life remain a mystery.