Sakai Kurai

Senryu (Japanese senryu) writer. Also written as Kuraki. His real name was Sakai Wakachi. He was also known by the pseudonyms Tsurezurebo and Henatuchi. He was born in Yokohama (Kuraki County, Musashi Province). He became a student of the Japanese scholar Watanabe Ikarimaro. He was active as a poet at first, and then he formed the Henatuchi Society, a group of poets that satirized Shinpa waka poetry. Later, influenced by Masaoka Shiki, he was the first to speak out in the revolution of senryu based on the Denpo Shimbun, and published Senryu Kougai and Senryu Kuraki Ten, as well as the journal Satsukigoi, and popularized social literary senryu as "new manners and customs poetry." Many old senryu scholars came from his school. He is buried in Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo.

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川柳(せんりゅう)作家。久良岐とも書く。本名坂井辨(わかち)。別号徒然坊(つれづれぼう)、へなつち。横浜（武蔵(むさし)国久良岐郡）に生まれる。国学者渡辺重石丸(いかりまろ)に入門。初め歌人として活躍、さらに新派和歌を諷(ふう)して「へなづち会」を結成した。のち、正岡子規(しき)の影響で、『電報新聞』に拠(よ)って川柳革新の第一声を発し、『川柳梗概(こうがい)』『川柳久良岐点』を発行、また機関誌『五月鯉(さつきごい)』を発刊し、「新風俗詩」としての社交文学的川柳を広めた。門下からは多くの古川柳研究家が輩出。東京青山霊園に葬る。

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『『川柳久良伎全集』全6巻（1936～37・同書刊行会）』

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