Santōka Taneda

Taneda Santoka (Japanese种田 山头 火; born December 3, 1882 in Nishisabarei (now Hōfu ); † October 11, 1940 in Matsuyama ), actually Taneda Shoichi (种田 正 一), often referred to only by his pseudonym Santoka, was a Japanese Haikuist the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period. He is one of the most famous representatives of the free haiku. He received 1925 Hoon Temple (报恩寺, Hoon -ji) to Kumamoto ordained a priest and took the name Koho ​​(耕 亩) to.

Life

Taneda Santoka was on December 3, 1882 as the son of a landowner in the village Nishisabarei (佐波 令 村, Nishisabarei -mura, now a part of the city Hōfu ) born, Yamaguchi Prefecture. At the age of 11 he lost his mother, who himself took his own life. After visiting the former Yamaguchi - school, he began studying literature at Waseda University, the study broke because of nervous weakness but from, returned home, received a medical treatment and helped by the way in the local sake brewery.

In 1911 he married. Also in 1911 began Taneda Santoka to post for the Notices issued by Ogiwara Seisensui magazine Soun, then in 1913 became a student Seisensuis and took in 1916 in actively participating in the design of the magazine.

The family brewery was soon afterwards because of the extravagant lifestyle of the Father and of his own conduct in a drunken state bankrupt, whereupon Santoka moved with his wife and child to Kumamoto. After him there, but the work is not well managed in a Buchantiquariat, followed in 1920 divorce, after which he tore out alone after Tōkyō. His father and younger brother then took their life.

After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, he fled from Tōkyō and returned to his divorced wife back to Kumamoto. Out of desperation, he undertook a suicide attempt, but Mochizuki Gian (望月 义 庵), the ruler Zentempels Hoon -ji in Kumamoto helped him, and he was the temple servants. In 1924 he was ordained a priest and was called Koho ​​(耕 亩).

In 1925, he left the temple and wrote, in the priests dress by the West Japan traveling, Haiku.

In 1932 he settled in the city Ogori his old home, Yamaguchi Prefecture, down and lived in a hut, which he called Gochūan (其中 庵). In 1939 he moved to Yamaguchi and called his local lodge Issoan (一 草庵). In this the following year ended his life. He was 57 years old.