After practicing at Sojiji temple, Koki Takei studied Buddhism and Zen as a trainee of the Education and Dissemination Division of the Center for Soto Zen Studies in Tokyo. He is researching about dissemination work using the poems of Japanese poet and Zen student Mitsuo Aida. Takei has deeply studied Aida, whose poetry is very simple with unique handwriting. This talk will focus on Aida’s work.