Seihakuan Kofu - Seihakuan Kofu

Japanese: 生白庵行風 - せいはくあんこうふう

A kyoka poet of the early modern period. His birth and death years are unknown. He may have died towards the end of the Enpo era (1673-81). He was a Jodo Shinshu monk living in Takatsu, Osaka, and learned haiku from Matsue Shigeyori of the Sadamon school. He compiled the first anthology of kyoka in the history of the language, Kokin Ikyokushu, followed by Gosen Ikyokushu and Ginyo Ikashu, and many other kyoka, including the geographical works Arima Shiu and Geikayu Arima Meisho Kan. "Greed is never ending, and in the straits of this world, Shakyamuni's coins are so scattered they can even be used to wipe his body" (Gosen Ikyokushu). [Morikawa Akira]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

近世初期の狂歌師。生没年不詳。延宝(1673‐81)末年没か。大坂高津に住する浄土真宗の僧侶で，貞門の松江重頼に俳諧を学ぶ。狂歌史上初の撰集《古今夷曲集》以下《後撰夷曲集》《銀葉夷歌集》等を編し，地誌《有馬私雨》《迎湯有馬名所鑑》等にも狂歌を多く収める。〈欲垢も絶えず浮世のさがの釈迦お身拭にもとれる散銭〉(《後撰夷曲集》)。【森川昭】

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