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Mukai Kyorai
Japanese poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mukai Kyorai (向井 去来; 1651 – 8 October 1704) was a Japanese haiku poet, and a close disciple of Matsuo Bashō.
Family and character
A physician's son, Kyorai was born in Nagasaki to a samurai family.[1] Fond of the martial arts, he was after his death described as having "a soft part and a hard part at the same time".[2]
His wife Kana-jo and sister Chine-jo were also notable haiku writers.[3]
As poet
Kyorai connected with Bashō in the 1680s, at the time when the latter was developing his theories of sabi, by which Kyorai was strongly influenced.[4]
In 1691 he was one of the compilers, together with Nozawa Bonchō, of the Sarumino (Monkey's Straw Raincoat) Bashō-school collection. After Bashō's death he produced Kyoraishō, a rich source for the ideas of, and anecdotes about, his master.[5]
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