Ichichu

A haiku poet of the early Edo period. He was of the Okanishi clan. His other names were Ichi-ichiken, Hokusui Roshi, and others. He was born in Shikano, Inaba Province (Tottori Prefecture). He later became a Confucian scholar in Okayama and was also well versed in waka, renga, and calligraphy, but he also studied haiku under Nishiyama Soin in Osaka. At the beginning of the Enpo era (1673-81), he took advantage of the rise of the Soin-ryu Danrin haiku school and launched a brilliant literary career. In 1678 (Enpo 6), he moved to Osaka and appointed himself Soin's successor. He was the leading debater in Danrin, and an advocate of haiku allegory, and also wrote a number of polemics with the old Teimon school, but after the decline of Danrin at the end of the Enpo era, he distanced himself from haiku and returned to Confucianism. His grave is in Ginzan-ji, Tennoji Ward, Osaka City.

[Eizo Ima]

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"Shima Kiyoshi, "Okanishi Ichinaka" (included in "Haiku Lecture Series 2", 1958, Meiji Shoin)

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江戸前期の俳人。岡西氏。別号一時軒、北水浪士その他。因幡(いなば)国（鳥取県）鹿野(しかの)の出身。のち岡山で儒を業とし和歌、連歌(れんが)、書道にも通じたが、かたわら大坂の西山宗因(そういん)に俳諧(はいかい)を学び、延宝(えんぽう)（1673～81）の初め宗因流談林俳諧の勃興(ぼっこう)に乗じて華々しい著作活動を展開、1678年（延宝6）大坂に進出して自ら宗因後継者をもって任じた。談林随一の論客で俳諧寓言(ぐうげん)論を鼓吹(こすい)、貞門旧派との論争にも筆陣を張ったが、延宝末、談林の衰退後は俳諧から遠ざかり、ふたたび儒に帰した。墓所は大阪市天王寺区銀山寺。

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　短冊の旗管城(かんじょう)の固め前は花

『島居清著「岡西惟中」（『俳句講座2』所収・1958・明治書院）』

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