毎日新聞: Donald Keene's Japan (Pt. 57): Appreciating Masaoka Shiki, reviver of classical haiku poetry
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Masaoka Shiki
Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life. He also wrote on reform of tanka poetry.
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Born 14 October 1867 · Died 19 September 1902 · Q315152
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2018· 1 entry
毎日新聞: Unpublished haiku poem written by renowned Masaoka Shiki found
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1902· 1 entry
Died 1902-09-19.
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1901· 1 entry
“Stray Notes While Lying on My Back”
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1897· 1 entry
A member of this group, Yanigihara Kyokudō, established a haiku magazine, Hototogisu, an allusion to Shiki's pen name
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1895· 1 entry
Another serial was published in the same paper, "A Text on Haikai for Beginners", Haikai Taiyō
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1892· 1 entry
The same year he dropped out of university, Shiki published a serialized work advocating haiku reform, Dassai Shooku Haiwa or "Talks on Haiku from the Otter's Den"
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1888· 1 entry
Or 1889 he began coughing up blood and soon adopted the pen-name "Shiki" from the Japanese hototogisu—the Japanese name for lesser cuckoos
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1883· 1 entry
A maternal uncle arranged for him to come to Tokyo
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-10-14.
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