Zhanzhou - Week

Japanese: 沾洲 - せんしゅう

1670‐1739 (Kanbun 10‐Genbun 4)
A haiku poet of the mid-Edo period. His surname was Takashi, and his first pen name was Mincho. His other pen names included Hashinankyo, Gyokeisai, and Gosenso. He was from Zeze, and may have been a chanter at the Hōshō-za. In 1696 (Genroku 9), he went to Edo, where he became a disciple of Zentoku and became a Soin-fu teacher, but he was also close to Kikaku and Giku, both of whom were from the Sho school, and was close to the Edo Sho-fu. As Zentoku's successor, he became a central figure in Edo, promoting a playful, urban style of 100-verse poetry that was rich in human color, and pioneering a new style known as the figurative style. However, in his later years, he was washed away by the waves of the Sho-fu revival, and died in misfortune, as his fellow student Zentoku's Toriyamabiko predicted the extinction of figurative haiku.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1670‐1739(寛文10‐元文4)
江戸中期の俳人。姓は貴志，初号は民丁。別号は橋南居，行輈斎，五千叟など。膳所（ぜぜ）の出身で，宝生座の謡師か。1696年(元禄9)江戸に下り，沾徳に入門して宗因風の点者となったが，蕉門の其角や祇空と親密で江戸蕉風に近い。沾徳の後継者として江戸の中心となり，百韻の中に人事色ゆたかな遊戯的な都会風を推進し，比喩体とよばれた新風を開拓した。しかし，晩年は蕉風復興の時代の波に洗われ，同門の沾涼の《鳥山彦（とりやまびこ）》で〈比喩俳諧滅却〉を予言されるなど，不遇の中に世を去った。

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