Kinoshita Chōshōshi

Kinoshita Chōshōshi

Kinoshita Chōshōshi ( Japanese 木 下 長嘯 子 ; * 1569 in Owari Province ; † July 27, 1649 ) was a Japanese samurai and waka poet. Chōshōshi was his poet name, while his real Kinoshita was Katsutoshi ( 木 下 勝俊 ).

Life

The son of the warlord Kinoshita Iesaga completed a rapid military career in the entourage of Toyotomi Hideyoshis , who was married to Chōshōshi's aunt Nene . In 1587 it received the Tatsuno fief in the province of Harima. In 1590 he took part in the battle of his uncle against the Hōjō clan near Odawara, and two years later he led a troop of 1,500 men during its invasion of Korea ( Imjin War ). He kept diaries of both campaigns: Azuma no michi no ki and Kyūshū michi no ki ( 九州 道 之 記 ).

For his services Toyotomi Hideyoshi awarded him the Obama fief in 1594 , which secured him an income of 80,000 koku . In the battle of Sekigahara , in which he had to defend the fortress Fushimi in the service of the Torii Mototada , he fled from the troops of Ishida Mitsunari to Kyoto and subsequently lost his goods.

With the support of his aunt Nene, he spent the next forty years in seclusion as a poet and teacher in a villa in Higashiyama . He represented this time in the work Kyohakushū . From 1641 he lived, possibly forced by financial hardship, in Oshioyama in western Kyoto. As a poet he was in Kyoto in competition and dispute with Matsunaga Teitoku .

literature

• Scott Alexander Lineberger: The Politics of Poetics: Socioeconomic Tensions in Kyoto Waka Salons and Matsunaga Teitoku's Critique of Kinoshita Chōshōshi . In: The Ohio State University (Ed.): Early Modern Japan . Vol. 18, 2010, ISSN  1940-7955 , pp. 103-125 ( full text ).
• Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 524 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
• Kendall H. Brown: The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan . University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8248-1913-6 , pp. 163–164 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 木 下 長嘯 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 20, 2011 (Japanese). 

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