Mukai Kyorai
Mukai Kyorai ( Japanese 向 井 去 来 ; aka Mukai Kanetoki , * 1651 in Nagasaki ; † October 8, 1704 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese haiku poet.
Kyorai trained as a samurai before turning to poetry at the age of twenty-three. In 1684 he met the haiku master Matsuo Bashō through Takarai Kikaku and became one of his most important students.
On the outskirts of Kyoto he lived from 1688 in a poet's cell called Rakushisha . Here his teacher visited him frequently and wrote his saga nikki in 1691 . Kyorai worked on the publication of two haiku collections Bashōs and his students ( Arano , 1689, and Sarumino , 1691) and worked after Bashō's death as an interpreter of his works and haiku teacher. In addition, he published several collections of his own poems and several essays in which he explained the principles of his poetry ( Kyorai shō ; Tabine ron ).
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- Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Mukai Kyorai
- The Green Leaf - The Illustrated Haiku Poems of Mukai Kyorai (1651-1704)
- Peter Pörtner : "Japan: from Buddha's smile to design; a journey through 2500 years of Japanese art and culture" DuMont Reiseverlag, 1998, ISBN
9783770140923, p. 156
- Nancy G. Hume: "Japanese aesthetics and culture: a reader" , SUNY Press, 1995, ISBN 9780791424001 , p. 174
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mukai, Kyorai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 向 井 去 来 (Japanese); Mukai, Kanetoki; Rakushisha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1651 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagasaki |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1704 |
| Place of death | Kyoto |