Arakida Moritake

Arakida Moritake (Japanese荒木 田 守 武; * 1473, † August 30, 1549 ) was a Japanese Shinto priest and poet.

Life

The grandson of the writer Fujinami Ujitsune worked in the Sengoku period as a priest at the shrine inside ( Naiku ) of the Grand Shrine of Ise. Impressed by the poets Iio Iio Sogi and Munenaga himself stood forth as a writer of haikai and renga. His style has been called Ise haikai. His poems have appeared in the Shinsen collection tsukubashū (新 撰 莬 玖 波 集) and were included in the anthologies haikai renga dokugin senku (俳 谐 之 连 歌 独 吟 千 句) or dokugin senku (独 吟 千 句) and Horáků senku added. Yo no naka hyakushu (世 中 百 首), a collection of poems which called for the maintenance of public morality were as Ise Analects ( Ise rongo ) known.

Swell

• Louis Frédéric: Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press, 2002 ( Original title: Japon, dictionnaire et civilization, translated by Käthe Roth), ISBN 0-674-00770-0, p 38 ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
• Encyclopedia of Shinto - Arikida Moritake