Kyoshomon

...2 momme 5 minutes. The editor was Kyorai Boncho of the Kyoto Sho school, but Basho, who was staying in Kamigata after his pilgrimage along the Oku no Hosomichi road, supervised the work, and by including the results of the new insight he gained from his pilgrimage, he renewed the recognition of the Sho school in the haiku world. As Sho school members Koroku and Shiko described it as the "Kokinshu of Haikai," it is an anthology that represents the mature period of the Sho school, and later became the fifth volume of the "Seven Collections of Haikai."...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kyoshomon" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…2匁5分。編者は京蕉門の去来･凡兆であるが，おくのほそ道行脚の後，上方滞在中の芭蕉がこれを後見し，行脚による新風開眼の成果を盛って，俳壇の蕉門認識を新たにした。蕉門の許六･支考が〈俳諧の古今集〉と評しているように，蕉風円熟期を代表する撰集で，のちに《俳諧七部集》の第5集となった。…

※「京蕉門」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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