1. Ogiwara Seisensui was the pen-name of Ogiwara Tokichi, a Japanese haiku poet active during the Taisho and Showa periods of Japan.
11 Facts About Ogiwara Seisensui
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The Ogiwara Seisensui family was originally from Takada, Echigo Province, and his grandfather Tokichi had moved to Edo as a young man.
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Ogiwara Seisensui co-founded the avant-garde literary magazine Soun in 1911, together with fellow haiku poet Kawahigashi Hekigoto.
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Ogiwara Seisensui was able to use new media to promote his style, including lectures and literary criticism on national radio.
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Ogiwara Seisensui left more than 200 works, including collections of haiku, essays, and travelogues.
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Ogiwara Seisensui wrote a number of commentaries on the works of Matsuo Basho.
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Ogiwara Seisensui moved to Kyoto briefly, and lived for a while at a chapel within the Buddhist temple of Tofuku-ji.
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Ogiwara Seisensui began a period of travel around the country.
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Ogiwara Seisensui remarried in 1929, and relocated to Kamakura, Kanagawa.
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Ogiwara Seisensui moved to Azabu in Tokyo until his house was destroyed during World War II.
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Ogiwara Seisensui then moved back to Kamakura in 1944, where he lived until his death.