Chinese poem by Hanshan, My heart is like the autumn moon” 1760 Baisa? Baisa? was a monk of the ?baku sect Zen Buddhism who was also instrumental in establishing the popularity of sencha, Chinese style of steeped tea, in a country that had elevated the practice of matcha, whipped green tea, into a highly ritualized ceremony. Baisa?, whose name literally means the old man who sells tea,” caught the attention of Kyotoites as an itinerant tea peddler. His own poetry and calligraphy, rendered in a radically demonstrative manner, was cherished in his own day and in future generations, especially in sencha circles. Following in the tradition of ?baku monks of the seventeenth century who established the Chinese style of Zen at Manpukuji in Uji near Kyoto, he nurtured a bold, dynamic but flowing style of calligraphy. Here Baisa? has inscribed not one of his own Chinese verses, but rather a famous five-syllable verse by Han Shan, the iconoclastic Zen- inspired Tang poet whose Cold Mountain”