Jikō  Nakade is the 12th resident minister of Daifukuji Soto Mission, a Soto Zen Buddhist temple located in Kona on Hawaiʻi Island, which she attended throughout her childhood years.   Jikō studied at Seattle University, the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she majored in Japanese language and religion.  As a recipient of the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship, she studied Buddhism at Komazawa University, a Soto Zen university in Tokyo, Japan.  At the age of 19, she received her Buddhist name “Taishin Jikō” from Shundō Aoyama Roshi while briefly training, as a layperson, at a Soto Zen women’s training monastery in Nagoya, Japan.  In 1999, Jikō was accepted into the Hawaii Soto Shu Ministerial Training Program. She trained under her teacher, the Reverend Ryuji Tamiya, and became the resident minister of Daifukuji in 2004. She has held this position for the past 20 years, assisted by her daughter, Deacon Jikai Nakade. Jikō and her husband Michael have two adult children and a dog named Michi.