Hototogisu (magazine)
is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku. Founded in 1897, it was responsible for the spread of modern haiku among the Japanese public and is now Japan's most prestigious and long-lived haiku periodical. History ''Hototogisu'' was founded in 1897 in Matsuyama by Yanagihara Kyokudō, who edited it under the direction of Masaoka Shiki. It soon became the leading forum for Shiki's Nippon school of haiku. The following year, the magazine's headquarters moved to Tokyo and its editorship was taken over by Takahama Kyoshi. At the same time, the magazine's scope was expanded to include tanka and haibun as well has haiku, and Shiki began publishing essays in his ''shaseibun'' ("sketch from life") prose style. It had established itself as Japan's leading haiku magazine by this time, and the first Tokyo edition sold out on its first day. Following Shiki's death in 1902, the magazine's focus shifted to the fiction of modernist writers such as Natsume Sōseki, but in 1912 Ky ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lesser Cuckoo
The lesser cuckoo (''Cuculus poliocephalus'') is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malawi, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In culture 150px, left, Lesser cuckoo on a 1971 Japanese stamp In Japan, the bird is called and frequently praised for its song. It has been celebrated by numerous ''waka'' poets since the anthology ''Kokin wakashū'' (920). Sei Shōnagon in her essay ''The Pillow Book'' (1002) mentions a trip she and other courtiers mounted on just to hear this bird, and it was expected of them that they would compose poetry on the occasion. It is also the central image in poem 81 by Tokudaiji Sanesada in the anthology of 100 poems, the ''Hyakunin Isshu ''. The Japanese haiku magazine '' Hototogisu'' takes its name from the b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Takashi Matsumoto (haiku Poet)
was a Japanese haiku poet active in Shōwa period Japan. Early life Matsumoto was born in the Sarugakuchō district of Tokyo into a family of Noh theater players of the Hosho school. His stage debut was at the age of eight. From the earliest age, he was devoted to honing his skills as a Noh actor. He also had a strong interest in classical Chinese literature, Japanese calligraphy and the English language, and was also fond of popular theater and ''rakugo'' comic storytelling. While recovering from an illness in 1921, he came across the haiku literary magazine '' Hototogisu''. Later, he joined ''Shippo-kai'', a haiku circle predominantly for Noh actors and began to study haiku under the famed poet Takahama Kyoshi. At around the age of 20, Matsumoto abandoned the idea of becoming a Noh actor because of his ongoing health problems and turned to composing haiku professionally. After spending the summer of 1925 recuperating from illness in Kamakura, Matsumoto moved there the foll ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Magazines Established In 1897
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content (media), content. They are generally financed by advertising, newsagent's shop, purchase price, prepaid subscription business model, subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''Academic journal, journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the ''Association for Business Communication#Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or Trade magazine, trade publications are also Peer review, peer-reviewed, for example the ''American Institute of Certified Public Accountants#External links, Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Literary Magazines Published In Japan
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1897 Establishments In Japan
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Murakami Kijo
was a Japanese poet who wrote haiku. Biography Kijo was born in 1865 in Edo, Japan. He studied law but gave this up after losing his hearing due to illness. In 1894, he worked as a legal scribe in Takasaki is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 372,369 in 167,345 households, and a population density of 810 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Takasaki is famous as the hometown of th .... He helped publish the first edition of '' Hototogisu'', a haiku magazine. He published his collection of work in 1917. In 1927, his house burned down with everything that he owned. Kijo died on September 17, 1938. Poems First autumn morning the mirror I stare into shows my father's face. The moment two bubbles are united, they both vanish. A lotus blooms. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kijo, Murakami 1865 births 1938 deaths Writers from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese poets Japanese haiku poets ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sokotsu Samukawa
was a Haiku poet in Japan during the Meiji period. Sokotsu was a pen name and his real name was . Life Samukawa was born in Matsuyama (now in Ehime Prefecture) on November 3, 1875. He became a student at ''Daisan Kōtō gakkō'' (now Kyoto University) in 1894. Samukawa met Kawahigashi Hekigotō and Takahama Kyoshi at this school. He fell under their influence and took part in . Samukawa was so absorbed in writing haiku that in the end, he dropped out of the school. He worked at the ''Kyoto Newspaper'' and the ''Osaka Asahi Newspaper'' and continued to contribute haiku to the magazine '' Hototogisu'' even while he worked. Samukawa went to Tokyo and joined the staff of the newspaper ''Nippon'' in 1898. He met the journalist Kuga Katsunan and Masaoka Shiki there. Samukawa became Shiki's pupil and studied the narrative prose, or the sketch in prose, that Shiki propounded. After Shiki's death, Samukawa stopped writing Hokku is the opening stanza of a Japanese orthodox collabora ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Itō Sachio
was the pen-name of , a Japanese ''tanka'' poet and novelist active during the Meiji period of Japan. Biography Itō was born in what is now Sanmu city, Chiba prefecture, as the younger son to a farming family. He attended the ''Meiji Hōritsu gakko'' (the predecessor of Meiji University), but left without graduating. His interest in poetry led him to visit the famous author Masaoka Shiki, who accepted him as a student. Itō established the literary magazine ''Araragi'' in 1903, and served as its editor until 1908. During this time, he published his poems, literary criticism and studies on the ''Man'yōshū.'' He published a sentimental love story, ''Nogiku no haka'' ("The Wild Daisy", 1906) in the literary magazine '' Hototogisu.'' The story became a popular classic, and was made into movies in 1955, 1966 and in 1981. Itō came to be regarded as Masaoka Shiki's closest disciple with the posthumous publication of his ''tanka'' anthology ''Sachio kashu'' in 1920. His own discipl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yaeko Nogami
Yaeko is a female Japanese given name. People *, Ainu waka poet and evangelist. *, Japanese nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima *, Japanese novelist *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese woman kidnapped by North Korea * Yaeko Uehara, a geiko and Mineko Iwasaki , birthname , is a Japanese businesswoman, author and former geisha. Iwasaki was the most famous geisha in Japan until her sudden retirement at the age of 29. Known for her performances for celebrity and royalty during her geisha life, Iwasaki w ...'s older sister. References {{given name Japanese feminine given names ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dakotsu Iida
was a Japanese haiku poet from what is now part of the city of Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was . He trained under Kyoshi Takahama, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as ''Hototogisu (magazine)'' and '. He was chief editor of ''Unmo'' until his death, upon which his son, the prominent haiku poet Ryuta Iida was a haiku poet from Yamanashi Prefecture, the son of the haiku poet Dakotsu Iida. Biography Born into the family of the well-known haiku poet Dakotsu Iida, Ryuta Iida suffered from poor health in his childhood, and was brought up by his gran ..., took over as the editor of ''Unmo''. Partial bibliography *''Sanro shū'', (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932) *''Reishi'', (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940) *''Shinzō'', (The Mind’s Eye, 1947) *''Sekkyō'', (Snow Gorge, 1951), *''Kakyō no kiri'', (Fog and My Native Land, 1956). References *Marcombe Shiffert, Yūki Sawa"Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Literary Magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History ''Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the '' Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The Spectator'' (1828), and ''Athenaeum'' (1828). In the Unite ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Teiko Inahata
Inahata Teiko (; 8 January 1931 – 27 February 2022) was a Japanese haiku poet, essayist and literary critic. Life and career Born in Yokohama, the granddaughter of poet Kyoshi Takahama and the daughter of poet , Inahata had been composing haiku since she was still a child. She studied at Kobayashi Seishin Women's College. Inahata published her first collection of haiku in 1976. In 1979 she succeeded her father as editor-in-chief of the literary magazine '' Hototogisu'', and was editor of the newspaper ''The Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...''. In 1987 she founded and was the first secretary of the , later serving as its honorary president. She was a Catholic. Inahata died in Ashiya, Hyōgo Prefecture on 27 February 2022, at the age of 91. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |