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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] .
Sep 15, 2024 · 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 was influential in developing a modern style of Japanese haiku and tanka, writing essays on the subject. He wrote a book on his poetics, Utayomi-ni-atauru-sho ( A Book Bestowed on Composers of Poems) and also edited the journal Hototogisu ( Cuckoo ) that featured haiku.
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 (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 ...
Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) brought innovation to the world of haiku poetry during the Meiji period (1868–1912) while also carrying on its traditions. He left the world many haiku poems that “sketch from life,” capturing nature and other things just as they are.
Aug 20, 2013 · Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country’s native haiku and tanka verse.
A biography of Japanese haiku master Masaoka Shiki. Creator. Beichman, Janine. Source. Jim Kacian Archival Library. Publisher. Cheng & Tsui Company. Boston MA. Date. 2002. Language. eng. jap. Type. book. Identifier. ISBN 0-88727-364-5. ← Previous Item. Next Item →. The Haiku Foundation Digital Library.
Haiku writer and poet. Born in Ehime, the son of a samurai of the Matsuyama Clan. Adropout of the College of Literature of the Imperial University. After joining the Nihon Shimbun newspaper company in 1892, he promoted a movement to reform haiku and tanka poems and advocated the use of realism.
Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) is credited with modernizing Japan's two traditional verse forms, haiku and tanka. Born at a time of social and cultural change in Japan, Shiki...
