Matsunaga Teitoku
Matsunaga Teitoku (1570-1653) was a haiku writer, considered by R H Blyth to be the most important of Matsuo Bashō's predecessors.[1]
Achievements[]
Teitoku played a significant role in regularising the rules for Haikai, and in raising its importance and status as a genre.[2] He specialised in elegant wordplay, and in subject-matter reflecting the Chinese classics and waka.[3]
Through his disciples in the , he influenced succeeding generations of haiku poets: thus for example Bashō's first haiku teacher, Kigin, came from his school.[4]
Criticism[]
Teitoku's approach was criticised by the Danrin school for shallowness and excessive wordplay.[5] One member, Bashō himself, is reported to have said of its founder, Nishiyama Sōin, that, if not for him, "we would still be licking the slaver of aged Teitoku".[6]
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References[]
- ^ R H Blyth, A History of Haiku Vol I (1963) p. 67
- ^ R H Blyth, A History of Haiku Vol I (1963) p. 67
- ^ Nobuyuki Yuasa trans., The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1983) p. 17
- ^ Nobuyuki Yuasa trans., The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1983) p. 20-1
- ^ Makoto Ueda, Matsuo Bashō (1982) p. 38-40
- ^ Nobuyuki Yuasa trans., The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1983) p. 24
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- 1570 births
- 1653 deaths
- Japanese writers of the Edo period
- 17th-century Japanese poets