Ikenishi Gonsui

Japanese: 池西言水 - いけにし・ごんすい

Year of death: September 24, 1722 (November 2, 1722)
Year of birth: 1650 (Keian 3)
A haiku poet of the early Edo period. Born in Nara. It is said that his haiku was the work of Matsue Shigeyori, but his name does not appear in Shigeyori's anthologies. He went to Edo in his late 20s and became active as a haiku poet of the Danrin school, establishing a firm position in the Edo haiku world. At the time, he was a cutting-edge haiku poet who pursued the new trends of the times. In the spring of Tenna 2 (1682) at the age of 33, he moved to Kyoto, and traveled to Hokuetsu, Oshu, Kyushu, and other areas, and after settling in Kyoto, he became one of the leading haiku poets in the Kyoto haiku world. The haiku poet review book "Hanamiguruma" ranks him at the rank of tayu and describes him as "a man of keen eyes." As this review suggests, he was sensitive to the trends of the times, and he also dabbled in miscellaneous haiku such as maeku-tsuke and kasa-tsuke, which became popular during the Genroku period (1688-1704). The story of how the poem "The fruit of the cold wind is the sound of the sea" became popular and came to be called "Kogarashi no Gensui" ("The cold wind and the sound of the sea") is well known. <References> Kiyoshi Ogino, "Genroku Meika Kushu"; Yoshifumi Uki, "Ikenishi Gensui Nenpu" ("Renga Haikai Kenkyu" No. 62)

(Yoshinobu Tanaka)

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没年：享保7.9.24(1722.11.2)
生年：慶安3(1650)
江戸前期の俳人。奈良の人。俳諧は松江重頼門といわれているが,重頼の選集に名はみえない。20歳代の後半ごろ江戸へ出て談林派の俳人として活躍,江戸俳壇に確固たる地位を築く。当時の彼は時代の新風を追い求める先鋭的な俳人であった。天和2(1682)年の春,33歳で京都に移住したのち,北越,奥羽,九州などに行脚し,京都定住後は京都俳壇を代表する俳人のひとりとして活躍した。俳人評判記の『花見車』は彼を太夫の位にランクし,「目はしのきいた君也」と評しているが,この評の通り,時流には敏感で,元禄年間(1688～1704)に流行し始めた前句付,笠付などの雑俳にも手を染めている。「木枯しの果はありけり海の音」という句が評判になり,「木枯しの言水」と呼ばれるようになったエピソードは有名である。<参考文献>荻野清『元禄名家句集』,宇城由文「池西言水年譜」(『連歌俳諧研究』62号)

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