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Kōun Takamura
Kazan'in Nagachika (花山院長親), also known as Fujiwara no Nagachika (藤原長親) and by his art name Kōun (耕雲), was a Japanese ''waka (poetry), waka'' poet of the Nanbokuchō period and early Muromachi period. His Dharma name was Myōgi (明魏). Biography Kazan'in Nagachika's year of birth is unknown. He was the son of and the grandson of Kazan'in Morokata. He followed his father and grandfather in serving the emperors of the Southern Court. In 1384 he is supposed to have left the Southern Court capital of Yoshino, Nara, Yoshino and gone wandering. His own account in the ''Kōun Kuden'' (which he wrote in 1408) indicates that around 1394 he took up residence in Kyoto. According to the postscript to the ''Kōun Senshu'', by the Japanese calendar, first month of Genchū, Genchū 6 (1389) he had risen to the rank of ''Naidaijin'', but before this time he had already left court. Shortly after this date he entered Buddhist monk, Buddhist orders. He died in seventh mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Name
An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names ''hào'' (in Mandarin), ''gō'' (in Japanese), ''ho'' (in Korean), and ''tên hiệu'' (in Vietnamese), is a professional name used by East Asian artists, poets and writers. The word and the concept originated in China, where it was used as nicknames of the educated, then became popular in other East Asian countries (especially in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the former Kingdom of Ryukyu). In some cases, artists adopted different pseudonyms at different stages of their career, usually to mark significant changes in their life. Extreme practitioners of this tendency were Tang Yin of the Ming dynasty, who had more than ten ''hao'', and Hokusai of Japan, who in the period 1798 to 1806 alone used no fewer than six. History China In Chinese culture, ''Hao'' refers to honorific names made by oneself or given by others when one is in middle age. After one's gaining the ''Hao'', other persons may then call such a person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |