Murakami Kijō
Illustration — Kijo in later life. Murakami Kijo memorial day is September 17. Murakami Kijo was a Japanese poet who wrote haiku.
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Murakami Kijō
松本旭『村上鬼城研究』1979年3月15日 · Public domain
- Born
- 1865 · Tokyo.
- Died
- 1938 · Takasaki.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- poet · writer · judicial scrivener
- Languages
- Japanese
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Kijo was born in 1865 in Edo, Japan. He studied law but gave this up after losing his hearing due to illness. In 1894, he worked as a legal scribe in Takasaki. He helped publish the first edition of Hototogisu, a haiku magazine. He published his collection of work in 1917. In 1927, his house burned down with everything that he owned. Kijo died on September 17, 1938.
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First autumn morning the mirror I stare into shows my father's face. The moment two bubbles are united, they both vanish. A lotus blooms.
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