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Masaoka Shiki (正岡 子規, October 14, 1867 – September 19, 1902), pen-name of Masaoka Noboru (正岡 升), [2] 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, [3] credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life. [4] .
Masaoka Shiki (born Oct. 14, 1867, Matsuyama, Japan—died Sept. 19, 1902, Tokyo) was a poet, essayist, and critic who revived the haiku and tanka, traditional Japanese poetic forms. Masaoka was born into a samurai (warrior) family.
Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) put effort into poetry activities to bring about innovation in the haiku from the Edo period. In the seven years of his later years, he kept making haiku while suffering from tuberculosis.
Masaoka Shiki was a Japanese poet, essayist, and literary critic who had a profound impact on modern Japanese literature. Although his career was cut short by illness, Shiki left behind an influential body of work, particularly in the realm of haiku and tanka poetry.
A Japanese poet and essayist, Masaoka Shiki was born in 1867 in Matsuyama, Japan. He attended University Preparatory College and Tokyo Imperial University, before dropping out from the latter due to illness. He worked for a newspaper and signed up as a war correspondent to China in 1895.
Masaoka Shiki (Japanese: 正岡子規; pseudonym Masaoka Tsunenori) (September 17, 1867 – September 19, 1902) was a Japanese author, poet, critic, journalist, and essayist, founder of the Japanese literary magazine Hototogisu and patron to a number of young poets, who played a leading role in the revival of the traditional waka and haiku ...
My focus in this paper is on that crucial crosscurrent in Japanese cultural history when West met East, on the man Masaoki Shiki and his works, and especially the aesthetic principles that he introduced to the composition of haiku, notably shasei. First we’ll talk a bit about the literary scene that Shiki was born into.
