Ogiwara Seisensui

Ogiwara Seisensui (Japanese荻 原 井泉 水; born June 16, 1884 in Shimmei, municipality Shiba (now Hamamatsu, city district of Minato ), Tōkyō, † May 20 1976 in Kamakura ) was a Japanese Haikuist. His real name was Kitaro (几 太郎), later it was called Tokichi (藤 吉).

Life

Ogiwara Seisensui was born as the second son of a grocer in Shimmei. The Ogiwara family came from Takada in the old province of Echigo (now part of the city of Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture), where the grandfather, Tokichi to leave the house due to family circumstances and have gone to Edo to.

Seisensui visited the Azabu - middle school and began at that time to write haiku. He also visited the Seisoku middle school and the first high school and ended in 1908 studying in the Department of Linguistics at the Imperial University of Tōkyō.

In 1911 he took over the editorship of the "new haiku " dedicated magazine Soun (层云, dt " cloud layer " ), which was also Kawahigashi Hekigotō participated. In the same year he married his wife Keiko (桂子).

In 1912 he published the haiku collection Shizen no tobira (自然 の 扉, GV "The Gate of nature" ), the first collection of "free Haiku ," which was published by the Soun Magazine. In 1913 he explained the lack of necessity of season words, traditional unconditional feature of a haiku, whereupon Hekigotō who does not agree agreed, left the magazine. Instead appeared at that time Ozaki Hosai and Taneda Santoka, in high school with only one class under Seisensui, the soun. But a real conversation with Seisensui it did not.

Died in 1923, his wife Keiko and his mother, whereupon Seisensui moved to Kyoto. In 1929 he married again, this time Hisako (寿 子) and the following year became the first son, Kaiichi (海 一), born. In the same year Seisensui visited the area around the city of Saku, Nagano Prefecture, and held on in a hotel in Saku, leaving behind works. A Waka - memorial stone at the hotel reminded.

In 1965 he became a member of the Japanese Academy of Arts (日本 芸 术 院, Nihon - geijutsuin ). On 20th May 1976 Ogiwara Seisensui died at the age of 91 years.

• Author
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature (Japanese)
• Poetry
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• Japanese
• Born in 1884
• Died in 1976
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