Matsunaga Teitoku
Matsunaga Teitoku was a Japanese haikai and waka poet. He was considered by R H Blyth to be the most important of Matsuo Bashō's predecessors.
Matsunaga Teitoku
Published by 博美社(Hakubi-sha) · Japanese Book "國文学名家肖像集" · Public domain
- Born
- 1571
- Died
- 1654
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Movements
- Teimon school
- Teachers
- Satomura Jōha · Kujō Tanemichi · Hosokawa Fujitaka
- Languages
- Japanese
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Matsunaga Teitoku was a Japanese haikai and waka poet. He was considered by R H Blyth to be the most important of Matsuo Bashō's predecessors.
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• Native Name — 松永 貞徳 • Other Names — Tyōzumaru Syōyūken • Born — 1571 • Died — 1654 • Era — Edo period • Children — Matsunaga Sekigo • Father — Matsunaga Eisyu
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Teitoku played a significant role in regularising the rules for Haikai, and in raising its importance and status as a genre. He specialised in elegant wordplay, and in subject-matter reflecting the Chinese classics and waka. Through his disciples in the Teimon school, he influenced succeeding generations of haiku poets: thus for example Bashō's first haiku teacher, Kigin, came from his school.
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1571
Matsunaga Teitoku born at Kyōto.
1654
Matsunaga Teitoku died at Kyōto.
Criticism
Teitoku's approach was criticised by the Danrin school for shallowness and excessive wordplay. One member, Bashō himself, is reported to have said of its founder, Nishiyama Sōin, that, if not for him, "we would still be licking the slaver of aged Teitoku".
松永 貞徳
栗原信充 · 『肖像集』 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1028997973, Matsunaga, Teitoku.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1028997973, Matsunaga, Teitoku.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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He trained under Satomura Jōha, Kujō Tanemichi and Hosokawa Fujitaka. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
His recorded language was Japanese. One child is recorded: Matsunaga Shakugo. Other recorded relations include Matsunaga Hisahide and Fujiwara Seika.
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