Itō Sachio

Sachio Itō (Japanese伊藤 左 千夫; born September 18, 1864 in Tonodai, County Musha, Kazusa province (now Sammu, Chiba prefecture), † 30 July 1913), actually Itō Kojiro (伊藤 幸 次郎), was a Japanese poet and writers of the Meiji period. As the successor Masaoka Shiki, he created high quality Tanka Tanka and treatises on. He also wrote prose works such as Nogiku no haka.

Life

Itō Sachio was born on September 18, 1864 in Tonodai into a peasant family. He visited the Meiji School of Law (明治 法律 学校, Meiji hōritsu - Gakko, today Meiji University ), the local studies, however, broke off.

Influenced by Masaoka Shiki Utayomi ni atauru sho (歌 よみ に 与 ふる 書, dt " poets dedicated to writing" ), he was Shiki's students. After his death he gathered around him the Haikuisten and Tankaisten, who had participated in the so-called Negishi Tanka community in Shiki's home, and was the central figure of the tanka journal Ashibi and its successor journal Araragi. Among his pupils were later known as poet Saitō Mokichi and Tsuchiya Bummei.

In 1905 he published in the journal founded by Shiki Shiki Hototogisu influenced by the nature descriptions novel Nogiku no haka (野菊 の 墓, GV " The Aster grave ").

Itō died in 1913 of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Tea Ceremony

Itō Sachio was also familiar with the Japanese tea ceremony. From Shiki he was even as tea master (茶 博士sahakase, "Doctor of Tea" ) referred. He called His own home Muichijin'an (无 一尘 庵, " hut with not a speck of dust " ) and built on his land with the help of his friend Warabi Shin'ichiro a detached teahouse, he (唯 真 阁) called Yuishinkaku.

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