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was a '' haikai-no-renga'' poet of the early
A Brief Selection of Poems by Nishiyama Soin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nishiyama, Soin 1605 births 1682 deaths Japanese writers of the Edo period 17th-century Japanese poets
was a '' haikai-no-renga'' poet of the early Tokugawa 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 characterize ...
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R H Blyth called Sōin "one of the Fathers of Haiku".
Influence and importance
Sōin founded theDanrin school The Danrin school (談林派) is a school of haikai poetry founded by the poet Nishiyama Sōin (1605 to 1682). The name literally means 'talkative forest' – in other words a ‘Literary Forest’.
Origins
The school arose in reaction against the ...
of haikai poetry, which aimed to move away from the serious 'bookishness' popular in Japanese poetry at the time and become more in touch with the common people, infusing a spirit of greater freedom into their poetry. Their poems explored the floating world of popular urban amusements in a fully colloquial style.
Sōin's haikai
''Haikai'' ( Japanese 俳諧 ''comic, unorthodox'') may refer in both Japanese and English to ''haikai no renga'' ( renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga. ...
(comical renga
''Renga'' (, ''linked verse'') is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ''ku (''句), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 mora (sound units, not to be confused with syllables) per line are linked in succession by multiple poets. ...
) became the transition between the light and clever haikai of Matsunaga Teitoku and the more serious and aesthetic renku of Matsuo Bashō.
Disciples
Among the most important members of his school were Ichū, a versatile figure who also painted and wrotewaka
Waka may refer to:
Culture and language
* Waka (canoe), a Polynesian word for canoe; especially, canoes of the Māori of New Zealand
** Waka ama, a Polynesian outrigger canoe
** Waka hourua, a Polynesian ocean-going canoe
** Waka taua, a Māori w ...
, and Saikaku.L Zolbrod, ''Haiku Painting'' (1982) p. 7
See also
*Haiga
is a style of Japanese painting that incorporates the aesthetics of ''haikai''. ''Haiga'' are typically painted by haiku poets (''haijin''), and often accompanied by a haiku poem. Like the poetic form it accompanied, ''haiga'' was based on simp ...
References
External links
* *A Brief Selection of Poems by Nishiyama Soin
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nishiyama, Soin 1605 births 1682 deaths Japanese writers of the Edo period 17th-century Japanese poets