Traveling haiku poet - Angya Haikai

...They also began to teach not only renku but also hokku and maekuzuke (preface verse). As haiku became popular and spread to the provinces, correspondence instruction and on-site instruction became necessary, and those who did the former as a profession were called 'tensha' (scoremasters), and those who did the latter exclusively were called 'angiya haiku masters'. At first, 'tensha' (scoremasters) gave critiques to submissions for a correction fee, but later they stopped correcting and only gave scores, and during the Genroku period (1688-1704), a performance format was established in which submissions were solicited by setting a deadline, the winning verses were published and distributed to the winners, and prizes were awarded for the verses with the highest scores. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "pilgrim haiku poets" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…また連句にかぎらず，発句，前句付（まえくづけ）の指導もするようになった。俳諧が大衆化し，地方に普及するに及んでは，文通指導や出張指導が必要となり，前者を業とする者を点者，後者をもっぱらとする者を行脚（あんぎや）俳諧師と呼んだ。点者ははじめは添削料をとって投稿に批点を加えたが，のちには添削をやめて点のみを加え，元禄年間(1688‐1704)には，締切日を定めて作品を募り，勝句を板行して勝者に配り，高点句には賞品を出す興行形態が整った。…

※「行脚俳諧師」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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