About yosa buson

Poems Books Biography Comments. He is also known for completing haiga as a style of art, working with haibun prose, and experimenting with a mixed Chinese-Japanese style of poetry. His original family name was Taniguchi. Buson scarcely discussed his childhood, but it is commonly thought that he was the illegitimate son of the village head and a migrant worker from Yoza.

According to the Taniguchi family in Yosano, Kyoto, Buson was the son of a servant woman named Gen, who had come to work in Osaka and had a child with her master. A grave of Gen survives in Yosano. There is an oral tradition that the young Buson had been cared for at the Seyaku-ji temple in Yosano, and later, when Buson returned to Tango Province, he gave the temple a folding screen painting as a gift.

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Around the age of 20, Buson moved to Edo present-day Tokyo. He learned poetry under the tutelage of the haikai master Hayano Hajin, who named the house he taught in Yahantei Midnight Pavillion. He published his notes from the trip in , marking the first time he published under the name Buson. After travelling through various parts of Japan, including Tango the northern part of present-day Kyoto Prefecture and Sanuki Province present-day Kagawa Prefecture , Buson settled down in the city of Kyoto at the age of Around this time, he began to write under the name of Yosa, which he took from his mother's birthplace Yosa, Tango Province.

Buson married at the age of 45 and had one daughter, Kuno. At the age of 51, he left his wife and children in Kyoto and went to Sanuki Province to work on many works. Later work and death After returning to Kyoto again, he wrote and taught poetry at the Sumiya. Buson died at the age of 68 and was buried at Konpuku-ji temple in Kyoto.