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p e r i o d h a i k u b y t a k a i k i t ō
Winter copse:
The moon piercing
To the very marrow.
Takai Kitō (1741-1789). Mid-Edo haikai poet. Like his Master, Yosa Buson, he studied Danrin haikai, specifically under Yahantei Sōa in Kyoto. It was there that he met Buson, whose most important follower he became. In 1780 they composed the two-kasen Momosumomo. On Buson's death three years later, Kitō vainly sought to keep alive the principles and practices of his teacher. Although he could compose striking stanzas, apparently his gifts did not include those of the leadership that Buson possessed.
[from 'The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature']
printing ink, poster paint and pencil on paper
forty-eight drawings
7.5" x 9"
for shanaya rafaat