Negishi Tanka Club - Negishi Tanka Club

A tanka poetry society. It was started by Masaoka Shiki at Shikian in Kaminogishi, Tokyo, as a practice of the waka innovation movement. It was originally called the "Shikian Poetry Society." On March 14, 1899 (Meiji 32), Katori Hotsuma, Oka Fumoto and others gathered, and as the number of meetings increased, it became a substantial association movement. The following year, 1900, it reached its peak with the participation of Ito Sachio and Nagatsuka Takashi, and their poems were published in various magazines such as the newspaper "Nihon" and "Kokoro no Hana" until the founding of "Ashibi" after Shiki's death. It respected Manyo and advocated sketching, which led to conflict with Shinshisha, but its realism was inherited by "Ashibi" and "Araragi" through "Ashibi" and became a major force in the poetry world during the Taisho period.

[Katsuo Motobayashi]

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短歌結社。和歌革新運動の実践として、正岡子規(しき)を中心に東京・上根岸の子規庵(あん)で始まった歌会。当初は一般に「子規庵歌会」とよばれた。1899年（明治32）3月14日、香取秀真(かとりほつま)、岡麓(おかふもと)らが集まり、以後回を重ねるにしたがい結社運動としての実質を備えるに至った。翌1900年、伊藤左千夫(さちお)、長塚節(たかし)らが参加して最盛期を迎えたが、その詠草は子規没後に『馬酔木(あしび)』の創刊をみるまで、新聞『日本』や『心の花』などの諸雑誌に発表された。万葉を尊重し、写生を唱えて新詩社と対立したが、その写実主義は『馬酔木』『アカネ』を経て、『アララギ』に継承され、大正期になって歌壇の一大勢力を形成するに至った。

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