Danrin Haikai

Japanese: 談林俳諧 - だんりんはいかい

A school of haiku poetry from the Edo period, and its style. It arose in reaction to the traditional Teimon haikai, and was popular mainly in the 1670s (Enpo period), but it was a transitional style of haiku that rapidly declined with the rise of Sho-style haikai. People who were dissatisfied with the lukewarm haiku style and strict etiquette of the Teimon haikai enjoyed the liberating and playful style of haiku as a side activity to renga. The school was led by Nishiyama Soin, the master of the renga sho (linked verse) at Osaka Tenmangu Shrine, and was called the Soin school, or Baio school after his haiku name. Danrin was originally a school for monks, and was first named by the Shoi school in Edo, but later became a general term for the various schools of haiku under Soin.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

江戸時代の俳諧流派，またその俳風。伝統的な貞門俳諧に反抗して起こり，1670年代(延宝期)を中心に流行，蕉風俳諧の台頭とともに急速に衰えた過渡期の俳諧である。貞門のなまぬるい俳風や堅苦しい作法に不満をもつ人びとが，連歌の余技として解放的･遊戯的な俳諧を楽しんでいた，大坂天満宮の連歌所宗匠西山宗因を盟主とし，一派を成したもので，宗因流，またその俳号から梅翁（ばいおう）流ともいう。談林とはもと僧侶の学寮をいい，初めに江戸の松意（しようい）一派がそれを名のったが，のちに宗因をいただく諸派の俳諧の総称となった。

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