Mitsuhashi Takajo

Mitsuhashi Takajo ( Japanese 三橋 鷹 女 ; born January 24, 1899 in Narita ; † April 7, 1972 ), actually Mitsuhashi Taka ( 三橋 た か ), was a Japanese haiku poet of the Shōwa period .

Life

Mitsuhashi Takajo was born on January 24, 1899 in Tamachi, Narita as Matsuhashi Taka ( 三橋 た か ), but she was called Takako ( た か 子 ).

After she finished the girls' high school in Narita (now Narita High School ) in 1916 , she went to nearby Tōkyō and lived there temporarily with her older brother Keijirō ( 慶 次郎 ). Through admiration for his private teachers, Yosano Akiko and Wakayama Bokusui , she devoted herself to poetry.

In 1922 she married the dentist Higashi Kenzō ( 東 謙 三 ). Under his influence, she turned to haiku poetry and worked for the magazine Kabiya ( 鹿 火 屋 , literally: "deer fire hut"; the hut of a field guard who lights a fire at night to help deer ), published by Hara Sekitei that could otherwise destroy the crops growing in the field).

In 1934 she moved to that of Ono Bushi magazine published Keitōjin ( 鶏頭陣 , dt. "The Hahnenkamm position ") and called himself Higashi Takajo ( 東鷹女 ). When her brother died of illness in 1942, her inheritance rights fell to the Mitsuhashi family.

In 1953 she took part in the magazine Bara ( 薔薇 , Eng. "Rose").

After the end of the Second World War, Mitsuhashi Takajo was named together with Hoshino Tatsuko , Nakamura Teijo and Hashimoto Takako as the "four T" of modern women's haiku poetry, which they founded together with them.

Haiku collections

• Himawari ( 向日葵 , German "sunflowers"), 1940.
• Hakkotsu ( 白骨 , German "Bleached Bones"), 1952.
• Shida-jigoku ( 歯 朶 地獄 , Eng . "Hell of ferns"), 1961.
• Buna ( ぶ な , German "beech"), 1970.

Web links

• Haiku, picture, brief biography
• Personal details on the Narita city website
• Entry in the haiku poet lexicon

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