Japan is looking to loan a 358-year-old statue of a renowned Chinese Zen master to a temple in China as a symbolic gesture of goodwill, as the two nations prepare to mark 50 years of the normalisation of diplomatic relations in 2022.Under the proposed plan, the wooden statue of Yinyuan Longqi (1592-1673), known as Ingen in Japan, will be temporarily transferred from the Obaku-san Manpukuji Temple in Kyoto Prefecture to Wanfu Temple in China’s Fujian Province.Yinyuan Longqi was the chief priest…