Ihara saikaku biography definition

Japanese poet

In this Japanese name, the surname is Ihara.

Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanesepoet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).

His born name may have been Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, and he first studied haikai poetry under a follower of Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin school of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677 Saikaku is known to have composed 1,600 haikai verses ^[1] and an amazing Ihara Saikaku - Encyclopedia.com SYPUL