Uejima onitsura biography of abraham

Japanese poet

In this Japanese name, the surname is Uejima.

Uejima Onitsura (上島 鬼貫, April 1661 – 2 August 1738^[1]) was a Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period.

Prominent in Osaka and belonging to the Danrin school of Japanese poetry,^[2] Uejima is credited, along with other Edo period poets, of helping to define and exemplify Bashō's style of poetry.

Biography

Born to a family of brewers in Itami (present-day Hyōgo Prefecture), Uejima showed exceptional talent in poetry at the age of eight.

At the age of 25, Uejima moved to Osaka, where he began his professional career in haiku and other forms of poetry.^[3]

In later life he worked as a masseur, before becoming a priest.^[4]

Hitorigoto

In his meditation on the art of haiku, Hotorigoto, Onitsura maintained that the best way to learn to write haiku was to first imitate one's teacher, and then to develop one's own style.^[5]

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