Nozawa Bonchō
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In this Japanese name, the family name is "Nozawa".
Nozawa Bonchō (野沢 凡兆, 1640 - 1714) was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Bonchō was one of Matsuo Bashō's leading disciples and, together with Kyorai, he edited the Bashō school's Monkey's Raincoat (Sarumino) anthology of 1689.[1] He participated in numerous renku with Bashō and other members of his Shōmon school.
A famous hokku by Bonchō:
- Downtown
the smells of things…
summer moon
(trans. Sean Price)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sieffert, René. Bashô et son école Haïkaï, Les éditions Textuel, 2005, ISBN 2-84597-140-0 (French)
[edit] External links
- The Haiku and Poems of Nozawa Bonchō
- Downtown, a 1691 renku (collaborative linked poem), by Bonchō, Bashō and Kyorai, translated by Sean Price
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