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Haiku poet. Born on June 16, 1884 in Shiba Shinmeicho, Tokyo (present-day Hamamatsucho, Minato Ward). His real name was Toukichi. He began composing haiku in middle school, and entered the former First Higher School in 1901 (Meiji 34). He was involved with Tsunoda Chikurei's Shusei-kai and Okano Chiju's Hanmen-ha, and later joined Masaoka Shiki's Nihon-ha and founded the First Higher School haiku club. In 1905 he entered the Department of Linguistics at Tokyo Imperial University, and joined Kawahigashi Hekigoto's new trend haiku movement, changing his pen name from Aiou to Seisen-sui. In 1908 he graduated from the University of Tokyo. He founded the magazine "Soun" with Hekigoto in April 1918, but Hekigoto left the magazine in the early Taisho period due to differences in opinion regarding seasonal themes, and Seisensu advocated free-style haiku that rejected seasonal themes and fixed forms, and produced such poets as Nomura Shurindo, Serita Housya, Ozaki Hosai, and Taneda Santoka as his disciples. His haiku collections include "Gensen" (1960), "Choryu" (1964), and "Oe" (1971), and his major works include "Haiku Advocacy" (1917), "Shin Haiku Kenkyu" (1926), "Tabibito Basho" Seishu (1923-1925), and "Oku no Hosomichi Hyoron" (1928). He became a member of the Japan Art Academy in 1965 (Showa 40). He passed away on May 20, 1976.

[Motomi Izawa]

Straw and snow are piling up, I'm standing in the middle of the moon

"Complete Works of 30 Japanese Poets" (1969, Shinchosha) ▽ "Sixty Years on This Road by Ogiwara Seisui" (1978, Shunyodo)

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俳人。明治17年6月16日、東京・芝神明町（現港区浜松町）に生まれる。本名藤吉(とうきち)。中学時代より作句し、1901年（明治34）旧制第一高等学校に入学し、角田竹冷(つのだちくれい)の秋声会、岡野知十(ちじゅう)の半面派に関係し、のち正岡子規の日本派に参加し一高俳句会をおこした。05年東京帝国大学言語学科入学、河東碧梧桐(かわひがしへきごとう)の新傾向俳句運動に加わり、従来の俳号愛桜(あいおう)を井泉水と改めた。08年東大卒業。碧梧桐と11年4月『層雲』を創刊したが、季題について意見を異にする碧梧桐が大正初頭同誌を去り、井泉水は季題と定型を揚棄した自由律俳句を唱え、門下から野村朱鱗洞(しゅりんどう)、芹田鳳車(せりたほうしゃ)、尾崎放哉(ほうさい)、種田山頭火(さんとうか)らの作家を出した。句集に『原泉』（1960）、『長流』（1964）、『大江』（1971）、主著に『俳句提唱』（1917）、『新俳句研究』（1926）、『旅人芭蕉(ばしょう)』正続（1923～25）、『奥の細道評論』（1928）など。65年（昭和40）芸術院会員。昭和51年5月20日没。

［伊澤元美］

　わらやふるゆきつもる
　棹(さお)さして月のただ中

『『日本詩人全集30』（1969・新潮社）』▽『荻原井泉水著『この道六十年』（1978・春陽堂）』

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