was a Japanese ''
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 ...
'' poet active in
Shōwa period
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Japan.
Early life
Hoshino was born in
Kōjimachi
is a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
Prior to the arrival of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the area was known as . The area developed as townspeople settled along the Kōshū Kaidō.
In 1878, the Kōjimachi area became , a ward of the city of Tokyo.
I ...
, Tokyo, as the daughter of the poet and novelist
Takahama Kyoshi. She attended the preparatory school for
Tokyo Woman's Christian University. After her marriage to the grandson of
Hoshino Tenchi
was the pen name a noted poet, educator, calligrapher, and martial arts master in Meiji period Japan. His true name was Hoshino Shinnosuke (星野慎之輔). Hoshino Tenchi was one of the founders of the ''Bungakukai'' literary magazine, which wa ...
, she was encouraged by her father to start writing ''haiku'' and soon showed an amazing talent.
Literary career
In 1930 Hoshino founded a ''haiku'' magazine exclusively for women called ''Tamamo''. Two years later, she joined the ''
Hototogisu'' literary circle and shared the position of leading female ''haiku'' poet with
Nakamura Teijo. The two were later joined by
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and
Mitsuhashi Takajo.
In 1937 Hoshino published her first ''haiku'' anthology, which was followed by other volumes including ''Kamakura'', ''Sasame'' and ''Jitsui''. Her style remained faithful to her father's insistence on traditional forms, and on the use of natural symbolism, but was tempered with her love of nature and a soft, feminine approach to daily life.
After her father's death, Hoshino became the ''haiku'' selector for ''
Asahi Shimbun'' newspaper, and contributed to ''haiku'' columns in various newspapers and magazines.
In addition to ''haiku'', she also published travel documentaries, including ''Tamamo haiwa'' ("Stories of the Tamamo Group") and ''Yamato Seki-Butsu'' ("Stone Buddhas of Yamato").
Hoshino began living in
Kamakura
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Kamakura has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 persons per km² over the total area of . Kamakura was designated as a city on 3 November 1939.
Kamak ...
,
Kanagawa prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
in 1911 and following a short period in Tokyo, she returned to Kamakura in 1931, believing it to be an ideal place to bring up her children. She died in 1984 at the age of 80. Her grave is at the temple of
Jufuku-ji in Kamakura.
See also
*
Japanese literature
Japanese literature throughout most of its history has been influenced by cultural contact with neighboring Asian literatures, most notably China and its literature. Early texts were often written in pure Classical Chinese or , a Chinese-Japanes ...
*
List of Japanese authors
This is an alphabetical list of writers who are Japanese, or are famous for having written in the Japanese language.
Writers are listed by the native order of Japanese names, family name followed by given name to ensure consistency although some ...
References
Sources
*Atsumi, Ikuko (editor). ''Women Poets of Japan''. New Directions Publishing Corporation (1982).
External links
Hoshino Tatsuko Memorial Museum, Kamakura
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1903 births
1984 deaths
Writers from Tokyo
People from Chiyoda, Tokyo
Japanese women poets
20th-century Japanese women writers
20th-century Japanese poets
Japanese haiku poets