is a Japanese

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 letter ...

focusing primarily on

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 ...

. 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

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by Yanagihara Kyokudō, who edited it under the direction of

Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡升), 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 ...

. 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 was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was ; Kyoshi was a pen name given to him by his mentor, Masaoka Shiki. Early life Kyoshi was born in what is now the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture; his father, Ik ...

. At the same time, the magazine's scope was expanded to include

tanka is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. Etymology Originally, in the time of the ''Man'yōshū'' (latter half of the eighth century AD), the term ''tanka'' was used to distinguish "short poem ...

and

haibun is a prosimetric literary form originating in Japan, combining prose and haiku. The range of ''haibun'' is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem, short story and travel journal. History The term "''haibun''" was ...

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 , born , was a Japanese novelist. He is best known around the world for his novels ''Kokoro'', '' Botchan'', ''I Am a Cat'', '' Kusamakura'' and his unfinished work '' Light and Darkness''. He was also a scholar of British literature and writer ...

, but in 1912 Kyoshi once again began including haiku. In 1916, Kyoshi initiated the "Kitchen Miscellanies" column in ''Hototogisu'' to promote the writings of women haiku poets such as .Rodd, Laurel Rasplica. "Meiji Women's Poetry" in When Kyoshi died in 1959, editorship passed to his son Toshio.

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 ...

(1931-2022), Kyoshi's granddaughter, was editor from 1979 until 2013. The current editor is .

Notable contributors

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 ''Hototogis ...

* Takashi Matsumoto *

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 ...

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 ...

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 Un ...

* Murakami Kijo

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