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Date of birth and death unknown. A haiku poet of the early Edo period. Yamamoto clan. Commonly known as Wataya Kurozaemon. Real name Nishitake. Also known as Mugaiken, Fugaiken, and Fugaisai. He is estimated to have lived until the Tenna and Jokyo eras (1681-88) at the age of 70-plus. His death poem was "At dawn, the Pure Land sect blooms like flowers." He is one of the Seven Haiku Immortals of the Teimon. He entered the school of Teitoku at the age of 7, began haiku at the age of 11, and was permitted to become a tenja in 1653 (Shoo 2). Teitoku trusted him deeply, and at his teacher's command he worked on the compilation of "Taka Tsukuba" (1642) and "Kururu" (1650), among other works, and was also taught the secret teachings. His style, as described in Zuiryu's Teitoku Eidaiki (1692), is very old-fashioned and lacks any sense of intelligence.

[Kumo Hideo]

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生没年未詳。江戸前期の俳人。山本氏。俗称綿屋九郎左衛門。本名西武(にしたけ)。別号無外軒、風外軒、風外斎。天和(てんな)・貞享(じょうきょう)（1681～88）ごろまで七十数歳で生存したと推定される。辞世「夜の明て花にひらくや浄土門」。貞門(ていもん)七俳仙の一人。貞徳(ていとく)の門に7歳で入り、11歳で俳諧(はいかい)を始め、さらに1653年（承応2）点者(てんじゃ)を許された。貞徳に深く信頼され、師命により『鷹筑波(たかつくば)』（1642）、『久流留(くるる)』（1650）などの編纂(へんさん)に従事し、また秘伝をも伝授されている。作風は、随流(ずいりゅう)の『貞徳永代記』（1692）に評されるように、いかにも古風で、才気らしいものは感ぜられない。

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