Kagami Shikō

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Kagami Shikō ( Japanese 各 務 支 考 ; * 1665 in the province of Mino ; † March 14, 1731 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and haiku poet. He used the pseudonyms Tōkabō, Seikabō, Shishian, Renjibō and Hakkukyō.

Life

Kagami was born the second son of the Murase family. As a child, he was put in a temple to be trained as a monk. When he left the temple, he was adopted by the Kagami family and took their name. He met Matsuo Bashō at the age of 26, in 1691 in Ōmi. A year later he wrote Kuzu no matsubara ( 葛 の 松原 ), in which he dealt critically with the haikai poetry and discussed the style of Bashō. He became a student of Bashō and the most important theoretician of haiku poetry from his school. He was one of the Bashō Juttetsu ( 蕉 門 十 哲 , Ten Great Students of Bashō ) and had enormous influence on his followers after his death.

During Bashō's lifetime he wrote haikai in a sublime style following his teacher, then turned to a more popular style after his death and thus founded the Mino school of haiku poetry. His most famous student was the poet Kaga no Chiyojo . Curious about what people thought of, he had his death announced in 1711, retired to his hometown and hid while a student published his poems under the pseudonym Renjibo.

Kagami invented the poem form washi; he is also the author of the nine-volume Haibun collection Honchō bunkan ( 本 朝文 鑑 ).

Work (selection)

  • Haikai jūron ( 俳 諧 十 論 )
  • Jūron ibenshō ( 十 論 為 弁 抄 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 446 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
  2. ↑ 田中善 信 : 各 務 支 考 . In: 朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典 at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed December 5, 2011 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b Sen'ichi Hisamatsu: Biographical Dictionary of Japanese Literature . 3. Edition. Kodansha International, Tokyo 1982, ISBN 0-87011-253-8 , pp. 189-190 .
  4. ^ Makoto Ueda: The Path of Flowering Thorn: The Life and Poetry of Yosa Buson . Stanford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8047-3042-3 , pp. 33 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Sandy Kita: The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e . University of Hawaii Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8248-1826-1 , pp. 379 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Kagami is the family name, Shikō the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kagami, Shikō
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 各 務 支 考 (Japanese); Tōkabō (pseudonym); Seikabō (pseudonym); Shishian (pseudonym); Renjibō (pseudonym); Hakkukyō (pseudonym);
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Mino Province
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1731