Furusawa Taiho

Furusawa Taiho ( Japanese 古 沢 太 穂 ; * August 1, 1913 in Ōkubo , Kaminiikawa County (today: Toyama ), Toyama Prefecture ; † March 2, 2000 ), actually Furusawa Tamotsu ( 古 沢 太保 ), was a Japanese haiku poet of Shōwa and Heisei times .

Life

Furusawa Taiho was born on August 1, 1913 in Ōkubo, now part of Toyama City. The house where he was born was both a restaurant and a geisha house.

At the age of 11 he lost his father to an illness, after which the Tōkyō family moved to Yokohama .

In 1938, at the age of 25, Taiho completed the foreign language course for Russian in Tōkyō, but soon fell ill with tuberculosis and had to go into five-year medical treatment. In the sanatorium he received the recommendation to deal with haiku, and in 1940 subscribed to the haiku magazine Ashibi ( 馬 酔 木 , German " Lavender heather ") published by Mizuhara Shūōshi . Then he also took part in the magazine Kanrai ( 寒 雷 , dt. " Winter Thunder ") founded by Katō Shūson .

In 1947, after the Second World War, he and Akagi Sakae published the community magazine Sara ( 沙羅 , dt. Salbaum ) and joined the alliance of representatives of the new haiku ( 新 俳 句 人 連 盟 , Shinhaikujin Remmei ) as its chairman for a long time was active. Then he became a consultant. ("Community magazine ", Japanese dōjin-zasshi ( 同人 雑 誌 ), is a private magazine that is designed and published by several like-minded authors on an equal footing.)

In 1951 he founded the community magazine Dōhyō ( 道 標 , dt. "Milestone"). In 1972 he brought both community magazines together under the title Dōhyō and now took over the management of the editorial team.

For his Haiku collection Makaruru kamome ( 捲 か る る 鴎 , dt. "Wrapped Seagull") he received the Takiji Yuriko Prize .

Haiku collections

• Sanjūdai ( 三十 代 ), Kanagawaken Shokuba Haiku Kyōgikai, 1950.
• Furusawa Taiho Kushū ( 古 沢 太 穂 句 集 ), Gendai Shobō, 1955.
• Makaruru Kamome ( 捲 か る る 鴎 ), Chikutōsha, 1979.
• Kaun ( 火雲 ), Gendai Haiku Kyōkai, 1982.
• Ushirode ( う し ろ 手 ), Shinhaikujin Remmei, 1995.

Web links

• Entry in the Haiku Poet Lexicon (Japanese)

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Furusawa is the family name, Taiho the first name.