Karai Senryu

Karai Senryū ( Japanese 柄 井 川 柳 ; * 1718 ; † October 30, 1790 ), real name: Karai Hachiemon ( 柄 井 八 右衛門 ), was a Japanese poet.

In 1757 Karai was referee of a Maekuzuke competition ( 川 柳 評 万 句 合 , Senryūhyō Manku Awase ) in Edo. Maekuzuke was a popular type of poetry at the time, in which an existing poem verse had to be supplemented with your own verse. From then on, Karai collected around a hundred thousand of these verses each year, the best of which were honored and published.

The anthologies under the title Haifū Yanagidaru , of which 23 appeared during Karai's lifetime and which were continued after his death until 1833, became known as Senryūten ; the literary genre was named Senryū after its poet's name. At the end of the 19th century, the Senryū was revived by Sakai Kuraki and Inoue Kenkabō .

literature

• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 482 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, Robert E. Morrell: The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature . 2nd Edition. Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 0-691-00825-6 , pp. 179 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Haruo Shirane (Ed.): Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 . Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-231-10991-8 , pp. 521-522 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
• Masashi Kobayashi: Senryū: Japan's Short Comic Poetry . In: Jessica Milner Davis (ed.): Understanding Humor in Japan . Wayne State University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8143-3165-1 , pp. 156 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Matsunosuke Nishiyama: Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions in Urban Japan, 1600–1868 . University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8248-1850-4 , pp. 47 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Taito culture - Tomb of Karai Senryu

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