Saigin - Saigin

Japanese: 西吟 - さいぎん

? - 1709 (6th year of the Hoei period)
A haiku poet of the early Edo period. His surname was Mizuta, given name Motokiyo, commonly known as Shozaemon, and other names were Sakurayamashi, Rakugetsuan, and Okamatsuken. He was from Iwaya, Settsu Province (present-day Nada Ward, Kobe City). He was the fourth son of Mizuta Kazubei, a vassal of Araki Murashige, the governor of Settsu. The Mizuta clan was a cultured family that enjoyed the refined arts of waka and renga for generations, and Saigin went to Osaka at an early age to study haiku under Soin, later joining Saikaku and becoming one of his influential entourage. In 1676 (Enpo 4), he performed 10,000 verses from Hiruamishu, becoming a master of haiku, and was bestowed one of the characters from Saiou (Soin) to take the name Saigin, and opened a haiku meeting place in Nakamachi, Osaka.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

？‐1709(宝永6)
江戸前期の俳人。姓は水田，名は元清，通称は庄左衛門，別号は桜山子，落月庵，岡松軒。摂津国巌屋(現，神戸市灘区)の人。摂津守荒木村重の家臣水田和兵衛の4世。水田氏は代々和歌･連歌の風流に遊ぶ文化的家系で，西吟もはやくから大坂に出て宗因に俳諧を学び，のち西鶴に属して有力な取巻きの一人となった。1676年(延宝4)《昼網集》の万句を興行して俳諧宗匠となり，西翁（さいおう）(宗因)の1字を拝領して西吟を名のり，大坂中町に俳諧の会所を開いた。

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