Takayanagi Shigenobu

Takayanagi Shigenobu ( Japanese 高 柳 重 信 ; born January 9, 1923 in the city ​​of Tokyo (now Tokyo ); † July 8, 1983 ) was a Japanese haiku poet.

Takayanagi studied law at Waseda University . Here he published the haiku magazines Mure and Sōdai haiku . After most of the progressive haiku magazines, including his own, were banned, he published in Kikan . Immediately after the war he re- founded Mure and also the magazine Chōki .

In 1947 he became a student of the poet Tomizawa Kakio , who brought Western influences into Japanese haiku poetry. With this he founded the avant-garde magazine Bara in 1952 . In 1958 he founded Haiku hyorōn , and in 1967 he became the editor of Haiku kenkyū magazine . He published six books of his own poetry: Fukiok ( 蕗 子 ; 1950), Hakushakuryō ( 伯爵 領 ; 1952), Kuromisa ( 黒 彌撒 ; 1956), Aomisa ( 青 彌撒 ; 1974), Sengaishū ( 山海 集 ; 1976) and Nippon kaigun ( 日本 海軍 ; 1979).

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• Willy Vande Walle: Haiku: Van scherts dead experiment . Amsterdam University Press, 2003, ISBN 90-5356-596-5 , pp. 71–76 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Edith Marcombe Shiffert, Yūki Sawa: Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry . 8th edition. Tuttle Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-8048-0672-1 , pp. 188 ( 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 Takayanagi is the family name, Shigenobu the first name.