Kenoushin (Zhen Yingchen)

Kenoushin (Zhen Yingchen), legal name Zhen Peng, is the founder and resource editor of Koken Shoja (弘顕精舎). Kenoushin is the Japanese reading of 甄應辰 and the origin of kenoushin.com: one person, one reading, one address.

Based in Tokyo for over a decade, he organizes Buddhist texts, lecture materials related to Nan Huai-chin, Japanese temple and shrine culture, and traditional environmental knowledge, while researching dwelling analysis, BaZi, date selection, and independent digital products. His work is rooted in transmitting the Dharma and building public resources, with clearly bounded personal consultation for practical questions of dwelling and life planning.

Trained from childhood in family scholarship, later receiving direct instruction in the lineage of Nan Huai-chin; long-term study of Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist thought grounded in classical texts. A lay Buddhist who has taken refuge in the Three Jewels.

His role is not to claim monastic authority or overstep into sermons, but to bring Dharma principles into everyday awareness, relationships, and choices. Feng shui is treated as a way to understand dwelling conditions: Dharma is fundamental, feng shui is a supporting condition, and each keeps its proper place.

Areas of expertise: feng shui (Jinsuo Yuguan, Xingfa, Xuankong, and Sanhe schools), BaZi astrology, physiognomy, Japanese shrine and temple culture, and the 24 solar terms — with AI engineering brought into this traditional framework of judgment, on the principle that “tradition should not mystify; sound judgment should be verifiable.”

Works & products: Sekkicho (24 solar terms app), Takukan (feng shui checker for apartment hunting in Japan), Meguri Tabi (pilgrimage app, under review), Shanlu (AI-assisted reading service, under review).

Legal and public names: legal name Zhen Peng; public name 甄应辰 in Chinese, 甄應辰 Kenoushin in Japanese, and Kenoushin internationally; his literary name (hao) is Sanshō Koji 山彰居士.