Hoshino Tatsuko

Hoshino Tatsuko

Hoshino Tatsuko ( Japanese 星野 立 子 ; born November 15, 1903 in Tokyo , † March 3, 1984 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese haiku poet of the Shōwa period .

Life

Hoshino Tatsuko was born on November 15, 1903 as the second daughter of the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi in the then Kōjimachi district of Tokyo city . There she graduated from the women's university .

After marrying Hoshino Yoshito ( 星野 吉人 ), her father Kyoshi encouraged her to write haiku.

She founded the first haiku magazine designed by women, to which she gave the name Tamamo ( 玉 d, English "seaweed"), and also became a member of the circle of the haiku magazine Hototogisu . Together with Nakamura Teijo , Hashimoto Takako and Mitsuhashi Takajo , she founded haiku poetry for women. Because of the common first letter of the ( transcribed ) proper names, these four were also referred to as the "four T".

After Kyoshi's death, Hoshino Tatsuko was given the task of selecting haiku for the Asahi newspaper . In various other places, too, she tried to educate younger generations.

Works (selection)

• Zoku Tatsuko kushū: dai ni . Seishidō, Tokyo 1947
• Sasame , 1950
• Jissei: kushu . Tamamosha, Tokyo 1957
• Yamato no sekibutsu . Tankōshinsha, Kyoto 1965
• Kushu shunrai . Tōkyō Bijutsu, Tokyo 1969

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