Takarai Kikaku

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Takarai Kikaku ( Japanese 宝 井 其 角 ; * August 11, 1661 ; † April 1, 1707 ) was a Japanese Haikai poet.

Names

His original family name was Enomoto ( 榎 本 or 榎 下 ). His father had the family name Takeshita ( 竹 下 ) and his real first name was Tadanori ( 侃 憲 ). Shinshi ( 晋 子 ), Hōshinsai ( 宝 晋 斎 ), Shōsen ( 渉 川 ), Rasha ( 螺 舎 ) and Kyōraidō ( 狂雷 堂 ) are used as pseudonyms .

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Takarai was one of the most important students of the poet Matsuo Bashō and published two collections of poetry from his school: Minashiguri ( 虚 栗 ; 1683) and Sarumino ( 猿 蓑 ; 1691). Nevertheless, the relationship with his teacher was obviously strained, who was bothered by the extravagant and complicated "urban" poetry style of his student and did not mention him in his last great work Oku no hosomichi . Notwithstanding this, Takarai was one of the most respected poets in Edo at the end of his life.

According to the judgment of the Japanese literary scholar Kotani Yukio , Kikaku was "a drinker and improviser with a magnanimous, cheerful disposition and yet gifted with insight and profundity."

literature

  • Yukio Kotani: Bashô - Kikaku - Goethe: Metamorphosis. In: Quarterly journal of the German Haiku Society, Vol. 4, 1991, No. 3, 25–40

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 榎 本 其 角 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed February 12, 2012 (Japanese traditional date: Kanbun 1/7/17).
  2. ↑ a b c 田中善 信 : 宝 井 其 角 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed February 12, 2012 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 宝 井 其 角 . In: 美術 人名 辞典 at kotobank.jp. Shinbunkaku, accessed February 12, 2012 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ Michael K. Bourdaghs: Poetry: Haiku Masters. Eighteen Haiku by Kikaku, translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs. (No longer available online.) In: BigCityLit.com. February 2004, archived from the original on July 16, 2007 ; accessed on February 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nycbigcitylit.com
  5. ↑ Yukio Kotani : Bashô, Goethe and symbolic thinking. In: Volker Zotz (Ed.): Interfaces. Buddhist encounters with shamanism and western culture. Festschrift for Armin Gottmann on his 70th birthday. Luxembourg: Kairos Edition 2013, ISBN 978-2-919771-04-2 , pp. 105–120
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Takarai is the family name, Kikaku the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Takarai, Kikaku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 宝 井 其 角 (Japanese); Enomoto Kikaku (maiden name); 榎 本 其 角 (maiden name, Japanese); Takeshita Tadanori (real name); 竹 下 侃 憲 (real name, Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1661
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1707