Five-color ink - Goshikizumi

Japanese: 五色墨 - ごしきずみ

A collection of haiku poems by amateur haiku poets in Edo, including Sozui and Yanai. Published in 1731. It contains five volumes of Shiginkasen, in which the authors take turns as judges. It is an unusual book in that it depicts a group of amateurs with no ambition in the haiku world, freely playing with haiku without being obsessed with the score. It was later praised by Senryo as a book of criticism against the difficult metaphorical haiku that was popular in Edo, and played a pioneering role in the movement to restore the Sho-style.

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Japanese:

宗瑞，柳居ら江戸の素人俳人による俳諧撰集。1731年刊。作者たちが順に判者となった四吟歌仙５巻などを収める。俳壇的野心のない素人集団が，点取(てんとり)の勝負に拘泥せず自由に俳諧に遊ぶという数奇的性格の書。のちに沾涼(せんりょう)によって，江戸に盛行していた難解な比喩俳諧に対する批判の書として評価され，蕉風復古運動の先駆的役割を果たした。

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