Case 45: Zhaozhou’s Canvas Jacket
- Title in Sullivan (2021): Zhaozhou’s Canvass Jacket
- Title in Cleary and Cleary (1992): Chao Chou’s Seven-Pound Cloth Shirt
- Title in Sekida (2005): Jōshū’s Seven-Pound Hempen Shirt
- Named characters (in Pinyin):
- Zhaozhou Congshen (778-897)
- Named characters (in Wade-Giles):
- Chao Chou
- Named characters (in Japanese):
- Jōshū
- Historical commentaries:
- Hakuin Ekaku and Tenkei Denson (contained in Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record, Thomas Clearly, 2002)
- Modern commentaries:
- Matthew Juksan Sullivan (contained in The Garden of Flowers and Weeds, 2021)
- Gyomay Kubose (contained in Zen Koans, page 242, 1973)
- Sunryu Suzuki (dharma talk)
- Dainin Katagiri (audio dharma talk)
- Judith Ragir (audio dharma talk and dharma talk)
- Barry Magid (audio dharma talk)
- Shinge Sherry Chayat (audio dharma talk)
- Kurt Spellmeyer (audio dharma talk)
- Karin Kempe (audio dharma talk)
- Barry Magid (audio dharma talk)
- Yamada Kôun (dharma talk with paywall)
- Scholarly commentaries:
- Steven Heine (contained in Chan Rhetoric of Uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record, page 80, 2016)
- Kusumoto Bunyū (contained in Zengo Nyūmon, Zengo 41, 1982)