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Masaoka Shiki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) ... Masaoka Shiki was born in Matsuyama in present-day Ehime Prefecture. His father, Masaoka Hyata, was a low-ranking samurai, who died when Masaoka was at the age of five. His mother, Yae, was a teacher. While still at at school, Masaoka started to write prose and poetry.
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Shiki Masaoka, the haiku poet, was born in Matsuyama in 1867. Shiki is well known in Japan for introducing a new style of haiku, a short poetic form, and for enhancing the arts. ... The word Shiki can also mean "The four seasons" in Japanese. The seasons are very important in Japanese haiku, so Shiki is...
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shiki-team ... Who is Shiki Masaoka ? ... the Shiki Internet Haiku Contest...
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Title : Selected Poems of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman Author: Masaoka Shiki ... Author: Masaoka Shiki Publisher: Tokyo: Iwanami, 1941 ...
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Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) ... In the previous year 1867, Masaoka Shiki was born in Matsuyama. His father served the Matsuyama domain in the lower rank of samurai. Shiki lived to be 35 years old and died of tuberculosis of spine in 1902. In his last seven years, he had to be confined to his bed;
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Shiki Masaoka appeared in the haiku world as the critic to Basho Matsuo. Shiki criticized Basho's famous haikus in his criticism "Basho Zatsudan" (Miscellanies about Basho). He didn't deny Basho's all works, but he reproached his hokkus for lack of poetic purity and for having explanatory prosaic elements.
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Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works by Masaoka Shiki, translated by Janine Beichman. ... Voice: aspects of the haiku of Masaoka Shiki ... 1902 Death of Masaoka Shiki. . Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works (new version 2002; first published )
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Masaoka Shiki, who brought a revolution into the tradition of haiku in Japan. The 6 kukai held in the Shiki Temporary Mailing List, the Shiki Workshop Mailing List and Haikuforum from May till July,2001 were dedicated to his memory.
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