Masaoka Shiki

Masaoka Shiki

▪ Japanese author
pseudonym of  Masaoka Tsunenori  
born Oct. 14, 1867, Matsuyama, Japan
died Sept. 19, 1902, Tokyo

      poet, essayist, and critic who revived the haiku and tanka, traditional Japanese poetic forms.

      Masaoka was born into a samurai (warrior) family. He went to Tokyo to study in 1883 and began to write poetry in 1885. After studying at Tokyo Imperial University from 1890 to 1892, he joined a publishing firm. During his brief service with the Japanese army as a correspondent during the Sino-Japanese War, the tuberculosis he had first contracted in 1889 became worse, and from that time on he was almost constantly an invalid. Nevertheless, he maintained a prominent position in the literary world, and his views on poetry and aesthetics, as well as his own poems, appeared regularly.

      As early as 1892 Masaoka began to feel that a new literary spirit was needed to free poetry from centuries-old rules prescribing topics and vocabulary. In an essay entitled “Jojibun” (“Narration”), which appeared in the newspaper Nihon in 1900, Masaoka introduced the word shasei (“delineation from nature”) to describe his theory. He believed that a poet should present things as they really are and should write in the language of contemporary speech. Through his articles Masaoka also stimulated renewed interest in the 8th-century poetry anthology Man'yō-shū (“Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves”) and in the haiku poet Buson. Masaoka frequently wrote of his illness, both in his poems and in such essays as “Byōshō rokushaku” (1902; “The Six-foot Sickbed”), but his work is remarkably detached and almost entirely lacking in self-pity.

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