Gitoku

Japanese: 祇徳 - ぎとく

1702‐54 (15th year of Genroku to 4th year of Horeki)
A haiku poet of the mid-Edo period. His first pen names were Jishaku and Jiseki, and other pen names included Jizaian, Suikodo, Chinitei, Konantei, and Hoshosai. He shaved his head and took the name Raizohoshi. He worked as a billbroker in Edo Kuramae, and learned haiku from Giku. Not satisfied with the haiku of the Edoza theaters that were popular in Edo at the time, he believed that haiku should also use classical literary texts, and in his Heikai Kusen (1735, Kyoho 20), he advocated classical learning in haiku. He was influenced by the classical literary texts of Ogyū Sorai, and is thought to have learned from his teacher Giku's ideas as well as from Goshikiboku (1731).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1702‐54(元禄15‐宝暦4)
江戸中期の俳人。初号は慈尺，字石，別号は自在庵，水光洞，遅日亭，湖南亭，宝捷斎等。剃髪して来蔵法師と号した。江戸蔵前で札差を業とし，俳諧は祇空に学んだ。当時江戸に盛んであった江戸座の俳諧にあきたらず，俳諧も古文辞を用いるべきだと考え，《誹諧句選》(1735∥享保20)で，俳諧における古学を提唱した。荻生徂徠の古文辞学に影響され，また《五色墨》(1731)や師祇空の考えにも学ぶところがあったと思われる。

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