| Issho Fujita | |
| Dharma Name: | Isshō |
| Birth Date: | 18 April 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Niihama, Japan |
| Religion: | Zen Buddhism |
| School: | Sōtō |
| Priest, Director | |
| Location: | Hayama, Kanagawa |
| Education: | Tokyo University, Doctoral chose |
| Teacher: | Kōhō Watanabe |
| Website: | http://fujitaissho.info/ |
was born in Niihama, Ehime, Japan and was head teacher at Valley Zendo, a Sōtō Zen practice center in Charlemont, Massachusetts, USA.[1] Fujita had done studies in child psychology at Tokyo University Graduate School, but abandoned them and became a Zen monk. At the age of twenty-nine, on 8 December, Fujita was ordained a Zen priest, along with Ryōdō Yamashita, by Kōhō Watanabe at Antai-ji temple.
In 1987, Fujita assumed the role of abbot at Valley Zendo, where he lived until his return to Japan in 2005.
2010 - 2018, he was the Director of the Soto Zen International Center.