Wakita Naokata

[1] Born in Hanseong (now Seoul, of South Korea), Naokata's birth name was Gim Yeocheol.

Naokata was subsequently transferred to Toshinaga's service in Kanazawa, due to the request of Toshinga's wife, Eihime.

[1] Naokata was also one of the most prominent masters of Renga in Kaga and had thorough knowledge of The Tale of Genji and Kokin Wakashū.

[1] Gyokusen-en, the Japanese garden in Kanazawa, was built by successive heads of the Wakita family and took the name from Naokata's benefactor Eihime,[2] who became a Buddhist nun and took the name Gyokusen-in in 1614.

[3] In his later years, he became a Buddhist priest and changed his name to Jotetsu (如鉄), using the same Chinese characters of his original name.