| Birth Date: | 1203 |
| Birth Place: | Hitachi, Japan |
| Death Date: | circa 1273 |
| Religion: | Buddhism |
| School: | Tendai |
| Buddhist monk | |
was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Tendai school. He was a scholar, editor and a literary critic.[1]
His major work, Man'yōshū chūshaku, was completed in 1269. This was a treatise on the collected poems in the Man'yōshū anthology.[1] His work was instrumental in a process of rediscovering the original meaning of this seminal work of Japanese poetry.
Sengaku's published writings encompass 9 works in 12 publications in 1 language and 53 library holdings.[2]