Hino Sojo - Hino Sojo

Haiku poet. Born in Tokyo. In 1917 (Taisho 6), he began composing haiku after coming across Takahama Kyoshi's poems. In August 1918, he had a poem selected for the Hototogisu magazine, and in 1921, he was a judge of haiku for Hototogisu. In 1924, he became a member of the Hototogisu magazine. During this time, he graduated from the Third High School and the Faculty of Law of Kyoto Imperial University, and in 1927, he published a collection of haiku called Hanagoori. In 1935, he founded Kikan, and stood at the very left of the new haiku movement, working to modernize haiku. The following year, he was expelled from the Hototogisu magazine. In the midst of a storm of oppression of new haiku, he left his position as leader of Kikan in 1941. After suffering the damage of the war and the hardships of the postwar period, he founded Seigen in 1949. He composed clear haiku amid the pain of illness. His haiku collections include "Blue Grass" (1932), "Yesterday's Flowers" (1935), "Afternoon of Life" (1953), and "Silver" (1956). Representative haiku include "A crane with a high fever drifts in the blue sky" and "I wipe the balls of my glasses even though I cannot see."

[Terutoshi Hirai]

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俳人。東京生まれ。1917年（大正6）高浜虚子(きょし)の句に接して句作を始め、18年8月『ホトトギス』雑詠入選、24年『ホトトギス』課題句選者に、29年（昭和4）『ホトトギス』同人になる。この間第三高等学校、京都帝国大学法学部を卒業、27年には句集『花氷(はなごおり)』を刊行した。35年『旗艦(きかん)』創刊、新興俳句運動の最左翼にたち、俳句近代化を図り、翌年『ホトトギス』同人を除名された。新興俳句弾圧の嵐(あらし)のなかで41年『旗艦』指導者の地位を去る。戦災、戦後の苦労を経て49年（昭和24）『青玄(せいげん)』創刊。病苦のなかで清明な句をつくった。句集に『青芝』（1932）、『昨日の花』（1935）、『人生の午後』（1953）、『銀』（1956）など。代表句「高熱の鶴(つる)青空に漂(ただよ)へり」「見えぬ眼(め)の方の眼鏡の玉も拭(ふ)く」など。

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