Hori Bakusui 堀麦水 (1718-1783) was a major Japanese poet of the

Matsuo Bashō born then was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative '' haikai no renga'' form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest ma ...

revival, writing traditional style

haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or se ...

poems.Crowley, Cheryl. "Collaboration in the 'Back to Bashō' Movement: The Susuki Mitsu Sequence of Buson's Yahantei School," Early Modern Japan, Fall 2003, page 5.

Biography

Little is known of Bakusui's life apart from his poems. He came from

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in the middle

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

, and studied under Otsuyu. He is considered romantic by temperament, and he attempted to revive the early style of the classical Haiku poet of the previous century,

, from the book ''Minashiguri''. in 1770 he wrote a book of laconic comments on Bashō's hokku, called ''Jōkyō shōfū kukai densho'' (Orthodox style of the Jōkyō era: Verses with critical commentary).

Haiku

Japanese - Tsuba with a Dragonfly - Walters 51254

One of Bakusui's poems, on the popular haiku theme of the

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, runs: Another version on the same subject is

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bakusui, Hori 1718 births 1783 deaths 18th-century Japanese poets Japanese haiku poets

Biography

Haiku

See also

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