Mukai Kyorai

Mukai Kyorai (Japanese向 井 去 来; orig. Kanetoki Mukai, * 1651 in Nagasaki, † October 8, 1704 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese haiku poet.

Kyorai trained as a samurai, twenty-three before he turned to poetry. In 1684 he learned about Takarai Kikaku the haiku master Matsuo Bashō, and became one of his most important students.

On the outskirts of Kyoto, he lived from 1688 in a Rakushisha mentioned poet Klause. Here he often visited his teacher and wrote in 1691 nikki his saga. Kyorai contributed to the publication of two collections of haiku Basho and his disciples (Arano, 1689, and Sarumino, 1691) with and worked after Basho's death as an interpreter of his works and haiku teacher. He also published several collections of poems and several essays in which he explained the principles of his poetry ( Kyorai shō; Tabine ron).

Swell

  • Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Mukai Kyorai
  • The Green Leaf - The Illustrated Haiku Poems of Mukai Kyorai (1651-1704)
  • Peter Pörtner: " Japan: Buddha's smile to the design, a journey through 2500 years of Japanese art and culture," DuMont Travel Publishing, 1998, ISBN 9783770140923, p.156
  • Nancy G. Hume: "Japanese aesthetics and culture: a reader", SUNY Press, 1995, ISBN 9780791424001, p.174
  • Man
  • Born in 1651
  • Died in 1704
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Literature (Japanese)
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