Itō Sachio

Ito Sachio ( Jap. 伊藤左千夫 * 18th September 1864 in Tonodai , district Musha , Kazusa Province (now Sammu , Chiba Prefecture ), † the 30th July 1913 ), actually Ito Kojiro ( 伊藤幸次郎 ) was a Japanese poet and Writer of the Meiji period . As the successor to Masaoka Shiki , he created high quality tanka and treatises on tanka. He also wrote prose works such as Nogiku no haka .

Itō Sachio

Life

Itō Sachio was born on September 18, 1864 in Tonodai in a farming family. He attended the Meiji School of Law ( 明治 法律 学校 , Meiji-hōritsu-gakkō , today Meiji University ), but broke off his studies there.

Influenced by Masaoka Shiki's Utayomi ni atauru sho ( 歌 よ み に 与 ふ る 書 , English: "Scripture dedicated to poets"), he became Shiki's pupil. After his death, he gathered around him the haikuists and tankaists who had participated in the so-called Negishi-Tanka community in the Shikis house, and became the central figure of the Tanka magazine Ashibi and its successor magazine Araragi . Later well-known poets such as Saitō Mokichi and Tsuchiya Bummei were among his students .

In 1905 he published the novel Nogiku no haka ( 野菊 の 墓 , dt. "The aster grave") in the magazine Hototogisu founded by Shiki .

Itō died in 1913 of a cerebral haemorrhage.

Tea ceremony

Itō Sachio was also familiar with the Japanese tea ceremony . Shiki even referred to him as a tea master ( 茶 博士 , sahakase , "doctor of tea"). He called his own domicile Muichijin'an ( 無 一塵 庵 , "hut with not a speck of dust") and with the help of his friend Warabi Shin'ichirō he built a detached tea house on his property , which he called Yuishinkaku ( 唯 真 閣 ).

Works

• The grave of the wild chrysanthemum . Trans. V. Koji Yamada. Asaka 2010. ISBN 978-4-903703-36-7
• The grave of the wild chrysanthemum . Trans. V. Nobue Shimada. Pro Business 2015. ISBN 978-3-86460-284-9

Web links

• Biography (japanese)
• Digitized works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)

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