Ozaki Hosai

Memorial stone with a Haiku Ozakis in Sumadera in Kobe

Ozaki Hōsai ( Japanese 尾崎 放 哉 ; born January 20, 1885 in Yoshikata (today Tottori ), † April 7, 1926 in Tonoshō ), actually Ozaki Hideo ( 尾崎 秀雄 ), was a Japanese haiku poet.

Life

Ozaki Hōsai was born on January 20, 1885 in Yoshikata , Ōmi County (now part of the city of Tottori ), Tottori Prefecture, the second son of the clerk Ozaki Nobuzō ( 尾崎 信 三 ). In the year after his birth, the family moved to Tachikawa , Hōmi County (today, like Ōmi County, part of the city of Tottori).

In 1899, around the age of 14, Hōsai began writing haiku. In 1902 he graduated from Tottori Prefecture's First Middle School and entered the Literature Department of the First High School. In 1905 he became a student at the Imperial University of Tokyo . In the same year he made Sawa Yoshie ( 沢 芳 衛 ), who was his cousin, a marriage proposal, but had to resign from this because of the family relationship.

In 1909 he graduated from the Faculty of Political Science and worked for a news agency. However, the employment relationship did not last long. In 1911 he began to work in the contract department of Tōyō life insurance AG . In 1913 he became head of this department and was deputy head of the Osaka branch in 1914 , but returned to his old position in Tōkyō in 1915 and participated in the magazine Sōun , which was devoted to the new haiku, which was detached from the traditional form.

In 1921 he was dismissed as head of the contract department and quit his job at Tōyō-Lebensversicherungen AG at the end of the year. In 1922 he went to Korea as head of the newly established Korean Fire and Sea Insurance. In 1923 he began again to write articles for the Sōun , but lost his job again and went to Manchuria , where he had to be treated in hospital for an inflammation of the pleura, which unexpectedly worsened. He dictated Muryōjubutsu ( 無量 壽 佛 , dt. "The Buddha of immeasurably long life", Amitabha ) and went to the Ittōen community in the same year .

In March 1924 he was temple servant in Chion-in and moved in June to the temple Fukushō-ji in the Suma district , Kobe . In May 1925 he was then temple servant in Jōkō-ji in Obama , Fukui Prefecture , but left the temple again in July to go to the Saikō-ji on Shōdo Island , where he died on April 7, 1926.

literature

• Ozaki, Hôsai: I am guarding the baby Buddha. Selection of poems, German by Guido Keller. Angkor Verlag 2015. E-Book (Kindle).

Web links

Commons : Ozaki Hosai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Personal details ( Memento from January 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
• Side of the Ozaki Hōsai Museum on Shōdoshima (Japanese)
• Haiku by Ozaki Hōsai (Japanese)
• Shōdoshima no monogatari (Stories from Shōdo Island): Ozaki Hōsai (Japanese)
• Digitized works at Aozora Bunko (Japanese)

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