ShÅtetsu
Shōtetsu (Japanese正 彻, real name: Komatsu Masakiyo松 月 招 月, priests Name: Seigan (清 巌) * 1381 Oda, † June 9, 1459 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese tanka poet and Buddhist monk.
Shōtetsu was born into a samurai family and already as a child came to Kyoto. He learned thirteen years old poets Imawaga Ryōshun and Reizei Tametada know and became a student Imawagas. The age of seventeen he joined Nara in the Kōfuku -ji Temple.
From 1417 onwards, he lived in the Zen Buddhist temple Tofuku -ji in Kyoto on. As a poet in the tradition of Fujiwara no Teikas he regarded as the last major medieval representatives of tanka poetry. He was a prolific writer. Although in a fire 20,000 of his poems have been lost, have been handed more than 11,000 poems in the collection Sōkonshū (草根 集). Around 1450 he published his literary theory font Shōtetsu monogatari (正 彻 物语).