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  2. Uejima Onitsura - Wikipedia

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    Uejima Onitsura. Uejima Onitsura (上島 鬼貫, April 1661 – 2 August 1738 [1]) was a Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period.Prominent in Osaka and belonging to the Danrin school of Japanese poetry, [2] Uejima is credited, along with other Edo period poets, of helping to define and exemplify Bashō's style of poetry.

  3. Tanka - Wikipedia

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    Masaoka Shiki's (1867–1902) poems and writing (as well as the work of his friends and disciples) have had a more lasting influence. The magazine Hototogisu , which he founded, still publishes. In the Meiji period (1868–1912), Shiki claimed the situation with waka should be rectified, and waka should be modernized in the same way as other ...

  4. Matsuo Bashō - Wikipedia

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    Matsuo Bashō's poetry is internationally renowned, and, in Japan, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites. Although Bashō is famous in the West for his hokku, he himself believed his best work lay in leading and participating in renku. As he himself said, "Many of my followers can write hokku as well as I can.

  5. Ihara Saikaku - Wikipedia

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    Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).. His born name may have been Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, and he first studied haikai poetry under a follower of Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin school of ...

  6. Sakunosuke Oda - Wikipedia

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    An autographed photograph of Oda hangs in the Osaka restaurant Jiyūken (自由軒). Jiyūken opened as a coffee and snack shop in 1910, and has become known for its style of "curry rice". It is mentioned in Oda's writings. The inscription says that Oda has died, but has left us some of the good flavors of curry rice in his writing.

  7. Japanese poetry - Wikipedia

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    Edition of the Kokin Wakashū anthology of classic Japanese poetry with wood-carved cover, 18th century. Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in the Chinese language or ryūka from the Okinawa ...

  8. Why Naomi Osaka became a symbol of mental health

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    The post Why Naomi Osaka became a symbol of mental health appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: The tennis star became a symbol of mental health, but the story about why that happened is much deeper ...

  9. Waka (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Waka (和歌, "Japanese poem") is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature. Although waka in modern Japanese is written as 和歌 , in the past it was also written as 倭歌 (see Wa , an old name for Japan), and a variant name is yamato-uta ( 大和歌 ) .