Ochi Etsujin

Japanese: 越智越人 - おちえつじん

Born in 1656 in Kaga
[Died]? A haiku poet from the mid-Edo period in Nagoya. Commonly known as Juzo (or Juzo). Alternative names: Fuzanshi, Kinka Oji. He moved to Nagoya around 1675 and ran a dyeing shop under the care of Okada Nosui, after which he became active as a member of the Nagoya Sho school. He studied under Matsuo Basho around 1684-88, and became close to Basho, accompanying him on his trips to Irako and the journey of the Sarashina Kiko, but was unable to keep up with the new realms Basho reached in his later years. After the mid-Genroku period, he retreated from the haiku world, returning in 1715, and publishing Shakubikan in 1717, and being appointed as an elder of the Sho school, but his haiku skills declined. In the same year, in anger at the group of Shiko Kagami who were carrying around Basho and using him to make money, he wrote "Fumyoja" (The Fumyoja), and Shiko wrote "The Reply to the Kezurikake" (28) and Koshihito wrote "Ino Hayata" (29) in a debate. He also edited and wrote "Haiku: Winter Farmer's Day Hibiscus Flowers Okino Sho" and others.

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Japanese:

[生]明暦2(1656).加賀
[没]?　名古屋
江戸時代中期の俳人。通称，十蔵 (または重蔵) 。別号，負山子，槿花 (きんか) 翁。延宝3 (1675) 年頃名古屋へ出て岡田野水の世話で染物屋を営み，以後名古屋蕉門として活躍。貞享 (84～88) 頃松尾芭蕉に師事，伊良古旅行や『更科 (さらしな) 紀行』の旅に同行するなど芭蕉に親近したが，芭蕉晩年の新境地には追随することはできなかった。元禄中期以後俳壇から遠ざかり，正徳5 (1715) 年復帰，享保2 (17) 年には『鵲尾冠 (しゃくびかん) 』を刊行し，蕉門の古老をもって任じたが，句境は低調になった。同 10年各務 (かがみ) 支考一派が芭蕉をかつぎまわって名利の資としているのを怒って『不猫蛇 (ふみょうじゃ) 』を著わし，支考は『削りかけの返事』 (28) ，越人は『猪の早太』 (29) を書いて論争した。編著『俳諧冬農日槿花翁之抄』など。

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