Sonome

A haiku poet of the early Edo period. Shiba clan. Her other name was Chikyo. She was the daughter of a priest in Ise Yamada (Mie Prefecture). She married Shiba Kazuari, a haiku poet and doctor from the same area. Influenced by her husband, she learned haiku, became a disciple of Basho in 1688 (Genroku 1), and moved to Osaka with her husband in 1692. In 1694, she invited Basho and performed a nine-verse kasen performance based on the old man's hokku, "There is not even a speck of dust standing in the eyes of the white chrysanthemum." In Osaka, she was friends with Saikaku and others, and worked as a haiku and zappai poet in addition to her medical practice, but in 1703 (Genroku 16), after her husband died, she moved to Edo and opened an ophthalmology practice while associating with Kikaku and other members of the Edo theater scene. However, in her later years, she seems to have devoted herself to waka poetry. Her works include "Kiku no dust" (1706?) and "Tsuru no tsue" (1723).

The soil of Kosaka crumbles on the bamboo saw [Nobuo Hori]

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江戸前期の俳人。斯波(しば)氏。別号に智鏡(ちきょう)。伊勢(いせ)山田（三重県）の神官の娘。同地の俳人医師斯波一有に嫁した。夫の影響で俳諧(はいかい)を覚え、1688年（元禄1）芭蕉(ばしょう)に入門、1692年夫とともに大坂へ移住。1694年には芭蕉を招き、「白菊の目に立てて見る塵(ちり)もなし」という翁の発句(ほっく)による九吟歌仙を興行した。大坂では西鶴(さいかく)などとも交わり、医業のかたわら俳諧および雑俳の点者(てんじゃ)をしていたが、1703年（元禄16）夫に死別、のち江戸に出て眼科医を開業しながら、其角(きかく)ら江戸座の連中と交流していた。しかし、晩年は和歌に専心していたらしい。著書に『菊の塵』（1706？）、『鶴(つる)の杖(つえ)』（1723）など。

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