Matsunaga Teitoku

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Matsunaga Teitoku ( Japanese 松 永 貞 徳 ; * 1571 in Kyoto ; † January 3, 1654 ibid) was a Japanese scholar and Haikai poet. His real name was Matsunaga Katsuguma ( 松 永 勝 熊 ), but he also wrote under the names Shōyuken ( 逍 遊 軒 ) and Chōzumaru ( 長 頭 丸 ).

Teitoku was the father of the scholar Matsunaga Sekigo and studied Waka and Renga poetry with Hosokawa Yūsai and Satomura Yōha . He was also a student of the neo-Confucian scholar Hayashi Razan . He wrote commentaries on essays in Tsuzuregusa and Hyakunin Isshu . Around 1620 he opened his own Haikai school, Teitoku-ha . He worked as the secretary ( yūhitsu ) of Toyotomi Hideyoshi .

Some of his Waka, Renga and Haikai poems appeared in 1633 in the Enoko shū ( 犬子 集 ) collection of his students Matsue Shigeyori and Nonoguchi Ryūhō . Teitoku published two collections of his own poetry: Taka tsukuba ( 鷹 筑波 ; 1638) and Shinzō inu tsukuba shū ( 新 増 犬 筑波 集 ; 1643). In the Gosan script , he formulated the rules for writing haikai according to his school. One of his students was Kitamura Kigin , who in turn became the teacher of the famous Matsuo Bashō .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Matsunaga Teitoku. In: Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved December 27, 2011 .
  2. ↑ 松 永貞 徳 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Kodansha, 2009, accessed December 27, 2011 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b c Louis Frédéric : Japan Encyclopedia . Harvard University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00770-0 , pp. 619 (English, limited preview in the Google book search - French: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization . Translated by Käthe Roth).
  4. ↑ 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).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Matsunaga is the family name, Teitoku the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Matsunaga, Teitoku
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松 永 貞 徳 (Japanese); Matsunaga Katsuguma (real name); 松 永 勝 熊 (Japanese, real name); Shoyuken (stage name); 逍 遊 軒 (Japanese, stage name); Chōzumaru (stage name); 長 頭 丸 (Japanese, stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese poet and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1654
Place of death Kyoto