title: Sokan
text: # Sokan
  
  Sokan may refer to:
  
  ## Concepts
  
  * Sōkan, a Japanese system of rankings for Buddhist clergy
  * Sokan, a form of lightsaber combat in the Star Wars fictional universe
  * Royal tonsure ceremony, known in Thai as sokan
  
  ## People
  
  * Shinmen Sokan (16th century), daimyō, a head of the Japanese clan of Shinmen
  * Yamazaki Sōkan (1465–1553), aka Sōkan, Japanese poet of renga and haikai
  * Lana Ladd Stokan, American politician from Missouri
  