Moritake Arakida

Japanese: 荒木田守武 - あらきだ・もりたけ

Year of death: August 8, 1549 (August 30, 1549)
Year of birth: Bunmei 5 (1473)
A Renga and Haikai writer from the Muromachi period. A Shinto priest at the Inner Shrine of Ise. His father was Arakida Morihide and his mother was the daughter of Fujinami Ujitsune. He became a Negi (primary priest) at the age of 15 and progressed through the ranks until he reached the position of Chief Priest in Tenbun 10 (1541) at the age of 69. He loved Renga from a young age, and in 1495 (Meio 4) at the age of 23, he and his brother Moriaki included one poem in the Shinsen [G7EDFKunami/Tsukuba] Collection selected by Iio Sogi. His Renga works include Horaku Hokkushu and Akitsushima Senku. In his old age, he became enthusiastic about the then newly emerging art of haiku, and in Tenbun 9 (1540), at the age of 68, he composed "Moritake Senku (Haiku Renga Solo Recitation Senku)," completing the Senku format for the first time in haiku, which had previously only been utterances (verses not formally written down). His style avoided the vulgar humor of "Inu Tsukubashu," and linked associations through the bonds of words, resulting in gentle verses such as "The thin flowers on the side of the road where my groom entered the house, the autumn wind blows, holding a tokuri." He also wrote the moral poem "Yonchu Hyakushu" and the collection of short stories "Moritake Zuihitsu." <References> "Arakida Moritake Shu," edited by the Jingu Shicho, and "Arakida Moritake" by Ito Masao (Meiji Shoin "Haiku Lectures," Vol. 2)

(Taizo Sawai)

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没年：天文18.8.8(1549.8.30)
生年：文明5(1473)
室町時代の連歌・俳諧作者。伊勢内宮神官。父は荒木田守秀,母は藤波氏経の娘。15歳で禰宜となり以後累進,天文10(1541)年,69歳で一禰宜長官に至る。若いころより連歌を好み,明応4(1495)年,23歳の折,飯尾宗祇選『新撰【G7EDF玖波/つくば】集』に兄の守晨と共に1句入集した。その連歌作品には『法楽発句集』『秋津洲千句』などがある。また老齢におよんで,当時新しく興った俳諧に熱中,天文9(1540)年,68歳のとき,『守武千句(俳諧之連歌独吟千句)』を詠み,従来言捨て(正式に書きとめない句)でしかなかった俳諧で,初めて千句形式を完成させた。『犬筑波集』的な猥雑な笑いを避け,言葉の縁によって連想を繋ぐ句風で,「聟入りの道のほとりの花薄とくりを持たせ秋風ぞ吹く」などのような穏やかな句がある。ほかに教訓歌『世中百首』,小話を集めた『守武随筆』なども著した。<参考文献>神宮司庁編『荒木田守武集』,伊藤正雄「荒木田守武」(明治書院『俳句講座』2巻)

(沢井耐三)

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