Hino Sōjō

Hino Sōjō ( Japanese 日 野 草 城 ; * July 18, 1901 in Tokyo ; † January 29, 1956 ), actually Hino Yoshinobu ( 日 野 克 修 ), was a Japanese haiku poet.

Life

Hino Sōjō was born in Ueno , Tōkyōter Taitō District .

While studying law at the University of Kyoto , he started the joint Haiku Society of the University and the Third High School. In 1924 he finished his studies and became an office worker. As a haiku poet, he was trained by Takahama Kyoshi magazine Hototogisu , which attracted attention at the age of 21 when haiku he wrote made it to the front page of Hototogisu. In 1929, at the age of 28, he was finally accepted into the magazine's permanent circle.

In 1934 he published the haiku cycle Miyako Hoteru in the magazine Haikukenkyū ( 俳 句 研究 , dt. "Haiku research") , in which he described the first wedding night of two newlyweds and thus sent a shock wave through the world of haiku poetry. Although it was a fictitious story, this gave rise to the so-called Miyako-Hoteru dispute, in which Nakamura Kusatao and Kubota Mantarō were harshly criticized, while Murō Saisei appeared as a defender.

In 1935 Sōjō merged the three magazines Sōmatō from Tōkyō, Seiryō from Osaka and Hiyodori from Kōbe and founded the new magazine Kikan , whose management he took over.

He spoke out in favor of a modern form of haiku without seasonal words and thus finally broke with the conservative Takahama Kyoshi , who excluded him from the Hototogisu circle in 1936.

In 1949, after the Second World War , Sōjō moved to Ikeda and founded the magazine Seigen there .

On January 29, 1956, Hino Sōjō died as a result of tuberculosis , which had caused him to lie on the sickbed since 1946.

criticism

Hino Sōjō is considered to be a pioneer of modern haiku compared to the traditional forms represented mainly by Takahama Kyoshi. Fukumoto Ichirō honored him in his work of the same title as "the man who changed the haiku" ( 俳 句 を 変 え た 男 , haiku o kaeta otoko ).

Selected haiku

• 春 暁 や ひ と こ そ 知 ら ね 木 々 の 雨
  Shungyō ya, hito koso shirane, kigi no ame.
  Spring morning. The people, oh, they know nothing about it, the rain in the trees [because they are still sleeping].
• 松風 に 誘 は れ て 鳴 く 蟬 一 つ
  Matsukaze ni, sasowarete naku, semi hitotsu
  Invited by the wind that blows in the pine trees, a cricket chirps.
• 秋 の 道 日 か げ に 入 り て 日 に 出 で て
  Aki no michi, hikage ni irite, hi ni idete Herbstweg
  . I go in the shade, go out in the sun.
• 荒草 の 今 は 枯 れ つ つ 安 ら か に
  Kōsō no, ima wa karetsutsu, yasuraka ni
  Withering, but in peace now that I am a feral herb.
• 見 え ぬ 眼 の 方 の 眼鏡 の 玉 も 拭 く
  Mienu me no, hō no megane no, tama mo fuku.
  I also clean the lens on the side of the blind eye.

Works

Haiku collections (selection)

• Sōjō kushū . 1927.
• Aoshiba . 1932.
• Kinō no hana . 1935.
• Tentetsushu . 1938.
• Tambo . 1949.
• Jinsei no gogo . 1953.
• Shirogane . 1956.

Others

• Shin kōro . 1940.
• Tembosha . 1940.
• Bifū no hata . 1947.

literature

• Fukumoto Ichirō: Hino Sōjō: Haiku o kaeta otoko . Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, Tōkyō 2005.

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Hino is the family name, Sōjō the first name.