《Bendy Water》

...He was active in the magazine Hototogisu at the beginning of the Taisho era, when Kyoshi was a "conservative" poet, and displayed a distinctive Edo-style mood such as "The cold spring makes the puppeteer cough" (1913). In 1916, he founded and supervised the magazine Kiyokusui, but after his father's death in 1918, the mood of his haiku became more and more tinged with emotion. In 1927, after achieving the poem "The white sun is the fallen leaves that were my spirit," Mizuha came to view "the clearness and solemnity of the white sun that sheds its all-pervading spiritual light in the tranquil realm" (Preface to "Continued Mizuha Kucho", 1929) as the ideal of his own life and haiku. ...

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…虚子が〈守旧派〉を標榜した大正はじめの《ホトトギス》で活躍，〈春寒く咳入る人形遣（つかい）かな〉(1913)のような江戸趣味的な情調に特色を発揮した。1916年には《曲水（きよくすい）》を創刊，主宰したが，18年の父の死を境にして，その情調に心境の陰影が加わった。27年，〈白日は我が霊（たま）なりし落葉かな〉を得た水巴は，〈静寂境に無遍の霊光を放ってゐる其の白日の玲瓏さ，荘厳さ〉(《続水巴句帖》序，1929)を，自分の生と俳句の理想とするようになった。…

※「《曲水》」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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