Yokoi Kinkoku (横井金谷, Hōreki 11 <1761> - the 1st month and 10th day of Tenpō 3 ) was a wanderer, monk of Jōdo-shū Buddhism, a painter of Buddhist imagery, and a painter influenced by the Southern School of Chinese painting during the late Edo period. Much of the information known about Kinkoku comes from his autobiography, Biography of the Monk Kinkoku (Kinkoku Shōnin Goichidai-ki), which was translated by Fujimori Seikichi into modern Japanese in 1965 under the title of A Record of the Monk Kinkoku's Behavior (Kinkoku Shōnin Gyōjō-ki). According to Fister, Kinkoku's autobiography has many inaccuracies, such as dates and the use of the incorrect homophonic kanji. It is also speculated that Kinkoku used the work of others in his autobiography such as a journey based on Shiba Kōkan's work rat