A Sketch of the Life of Ashibe-no-Tazumaru

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  • 田鶴丸小伝
  • タズマル ショウデン

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<p>Ashibe-no-Tazumaru is a kyōka poet of the late Edo Period who was born in Nagoya. After he studied kyōka poetry under the tutelage of Karagoromo-Kisshū in Edo, he went back to his hometown where he frantically devoted himself to rendering poems even at the expense of his family. In the midst of such self-inflicted hardship he made a debut in the poetical circle of Kyoto and continued to make poems for the rest of his life. In his career as a kyōka poet Tazumaru not only moved between the three cultural centers Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo but also traveled around the country in search of poetical materials from Sendai and Matsushima to Nagasaki. His freewheeling itinerancy reveals that since the Bunsei Period at least in kyōka poetry there had almost disappeared literary sectionalism.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 62 (10), 28-41, 2013-10-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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