Kinoshita Rigen was the pen-name of Japanese author Viscount Kinoshita Toshiharu, noted for his tanka poetry, active in Meiji period and Taisho period Japan.
11 Facts About Kinoshita Rigen
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Kinoshita Rigen would have thus been a daimyo if the Tokugawa shogunate had lasted only a few years longer.
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Kinoshita Rigen attended the Gakushuin Peers' School, where he was a classmate of Mushanokoji Saneatsu.
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Kinoshita Rigen subsequently graduated from the Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University, where his classmates included Shiga Naoya, and he was a student of the poet Nobutsuna Sasaki.
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Kinoshita Rigen was a co-founder of the Shirakabaha Society, along with Shiga Naoya and Mushanokoji Saneatsu in 1910.
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Kinoshita Rigen contributed extensively to the society's literary magazine, with elegant tanka verses, written in an easy-to-understand colloquial language.
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Kinoshita Rigen married a fellow student in 1911, the same year that he graduated, and had a son the following year.
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Kinoshita Rigen published numerous anthologies of his verses, including Kogyoku and Ichiro.
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Kinoshita Rigen joined the staff of the Araragi literary magazine in 1923.
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Kinoshita Rigen moved to Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1919, as the sea air had a reputation for being good for lung disorders, and which was a favorite residence for many of the Shirakaba authors.
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Kinoshita Rigen's ashes were divided between the Kinoshita family temple of Daiko-ji in Okayama and Yanaka Cemetery in Tokyo.