Kitamura Kigin
Kitamura Kigin was a Japanese haiku poet and scholar.
Biography
Kitamura, who came from a family of doctors, was a student of Yasuhara Teishitsu and his teacher Matsunaga Teitoku.At the age of 23, he published a collection of haiku entitled Yama no i, which made him known as a member of the Teitoku school. In addition to his own haiku, he wrote commentaries on classic works of Japanese literature such as the The Tales of Ise, The Pillow Book, The Tale of Genji and Tsurezuregusa. He wrote his first commentary on the Yamato Monogatari at the age of 29. His most famous student was the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō.
Selected works
Yama no i Yamato monogatari-shōIse monogatari shūsuishō Genji monogatari kogetsushō InagoshūHakai umoregi- ''Iwa tsutsuji''