Saishū Onoe

Saishū Onoe studied at University of Tokyo, Hibiya High School and First Higher School. Training under Ōguchi Shūgyo and Ochiai Naobumi is recorded. The recorded working language is Japanese. Employment is recorded with Toyo University, Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School and Gakushuin Women's College. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Sacred Treasure, 2nd Class.

• Name — Saishū Onoe • Native Name — 尾上 柴舟 • Birth Name — Hachirō Onoe • Born — 20 August 1876 • Birthplace — Okayama, Japan • Died — 13 January 1957 • Place of death — Tokyo, Japan • Occupation — Tanka poet, calligrapher • Education — University of Tokyo • Genre — Tanka poetry • Movement — Lyric poetry

After finishing Tokyo Imperial University in 1901, after teaching at Tetsugaku-kan, Onoe professed at the early days of Ochanomizu Women's College (then Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, and Waseda University at its Department of Education (then Waseda University Higher Normal School, to be a professor at Gakushuin Women's University(then Gakushuin for Girls. Onoe also taught at the 6th Temporary Teacher Vocational School. Saishū wrote a poetry column for the magazine Shinsei ("New Voices"). He also founded the Shazensō-sha ("Plantain Society") in 1905, which stressed clarity, simplicity, and capturing ordinary experiences in poetry. This was in reaction to the style of the tanka poets associated with Myōjō magazine (such as Yosano Akiko) which emphasized the passionate side of human nature. Members of the Shazensō-sha included the noted Naturalist tanka poets Wakayama Bokusui and Maeda Yūgure, a pupil of Onoe Saishū.

Post humous exhibition was held in Ginza in 1957. It was followed by the anniversary exhibitions at the 100th and 130th year after Onoe's birth, or in 1975 and in 2006 respectively with catalogs published. • Gallery, Matsuya department: Retrospective show. September 27–2 October 1957. • Tokyo Central Art Museum: Onoe Saisho exhibition, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Society. Organized by the Nihon Shodō Kyōiku Gakkai Society, September 16–21, 1975. (Catalog NCID BN07084332、CRID: 1130282271573681536.) • Naritasan Temple Calligraphy Museum: Onoe Saisho exhibition, the 130th year after the artist's birth. 29 October - 23 December 2005. (Catalog NCID BC1652231X、CRID: 1130011838007309218.)

• Onoe Sasishu. Onoe Saishu Toyonotoshi. Japan Calligraphy Education Society, 1965, CiNii.

Hachiro Onoe (1955–1956). Calligraphy Introductory Course, Iwasaki Shoten, an anthology. Co-edited: • Hachiro Onoe, Morohashi, Tetsuji. (1930). History of Japanese Calligraphy, Yuzankaku,. • History of Japanese Calligraphy (1934). Heibonsha, CiNii. • Japanese Calligraphy and Japanese Spirit (1940). Cabinet Printing Bureau, CiNii. Education Bureau, CiNii. • Japanese calligraphy and Japanese spirit (1940). Japan Cultural Association, CiNii. • Ishibashi, Keijuro (1950). Advanced Calligraphy Tokyo Shubunkan.[31]. • Ishibashi, Keijuro (1952). Advanced Calligraphy: A Teachers' Material. CiNii. • Ishibashi, Keijuro (1953). New Advanced Calligraphy. Tokyo Shubunkan, CiNii. Revised in 1955, CiNii. • Ishibashi, Keijuro (1953). New Advanced Calligraphy: A Teachers' Material. Shubunkan, 1953, CiNii. • Ishibashi, Keijuro (1955). Illustrated Calligraphy Education. Iwasaki Shoten. CiNii. Revised in 1966, CiNii. • Ishibashi, Keijuro (1957). New Mirrors for Calligraphy. Shubunkan, CiNii. Revised in 1958, CiNii.

• Heine, Heinrich. Heine's Poetry. Shinseisha, 1901. • volume 1 and volume 2, with volume 3 (1948). *

* • Onoe, Saishu. (1975). Onoe Shishu Birth Centenary Exhibition, Japan Calligraphy Education Society (ed), CRID: 1130282271573681536. • Naritasan Temple Calligraphy Museum (2005). Onoe Saishu: 130 Years after Birth. Naritasan Temple Calligraphy Museum, CRID: 1130011838007309218. • Shishu Onoe, Japan Calligraphy Museum (2006). Special Exhibition: Saishu Onoe: 130th Anniversary of Birth: People and Their Works. Educational Calligraphy Publishing Association, CRID: 1130282272228253184.