Kitamura Queen

Kitamura Queen, 1907

Kitamura Kigin ( Japanese 北村季吟 ; born January 19, 1624 in Kitamura, Yasu-gun , Ōmi Province (today: Yasu , Shiga Prefecture ); † August 4, 1705 ) was a Japanese Haikai poet and scholar.

Life

Kitamura, who came from a family of doctors, was a student of Yasuhara Teishitsu and his teacher Matsunaga Teitoku .

At the age of 23 he published a collection with haikai under the title Yama no i , which made him known as a member of the Teitoku School. In addition to his own haikai, he wrote commentaries on classic works of Japanese literature such as the Ise Monogatari , Makura no Sōshi , Genji Monogatari and Tsurezuregusa . He wrote his first commentary on the Yamato Monogatari when he was 29. His best known student was the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō .

Works (selection)

Yama no i ( 山之井 )
Yamato monogatari-shō
Ise monogatari shūsuishō ( 伊勢物語拾穂抄 )
Genji monogatari kogetsushō ( 源氏物語湖月抄 )
Inagoshu
Hakai umoregi
Iwa tsutsuji

Individual evidence

↑ 北村季吟 . In: デジタル版日本人名大辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 22, 2011 (Japanese).
↑ Claudia Walter Mann: The imaged haikai -Anthologie Kagebôshi (1754) . Edition and analysis. Harrassowitz, 2006, ISBN 3-447-05312-7 , pp. 41 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ ^a ^b Haruo Shirane: Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-13697-6 , pp. 11 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ ^a ^b Sen'ichi Hisamatsu: Biographical Dictionnary of Japanese Literature . 3. Edition. Kodansha International, Tokyo 1982, ISBN 0-87011-253-8 , pp. 203-204 .
^ Ekkehard May: Premodern Literature . In: Klaus Kracht, Markus Rüttermann (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Japanologie . Harrassowitz, 2001, ISBN 3-447-04371-7 , pp. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Kitamura, queen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	北村季吟 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese poet
DATE OF BIRTH	January 19, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kitamura, Yasu-gun , Ōmi Province (today: Yasu , Shiga Prefecture )
DATE OF DEATH	August 4, 1705

[1] 北村季吟 . In: デジタル版日本人名大辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, accessed December 22, 2011 (Japanese).

[2] Claudia Walter Mann: The imaged haikai -Anthologie Kagebôshi (1754) . Edition and analysis. Harrassowitz, 2006, ISBN 3-447-05312-7 , pp. 41 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[Shirane-3] Haruo Shirane: Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-13697-6 , pp. 11 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[kodan-4] Sen'ichi Hisamatsu: Biographical Dictionnary of Japanese Literature . 3. Edition. Kodansha International, Tokyo 1982, ISBN 0-87011-253-8 , pp. 203-204 .

[5] Ekkehard May: Premodern Literature . In: Klaus Kracht, Markus Rüttermann (Hrsg.): Grundriss der Japanologie . Harrassowitz, 2001, ISBN 3-447-04371-7 , pp. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).