was a famous Japanese

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 haiku

Haiku

' , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:* The essence of haiku is "cutting"...

 poet from Yamanashi

Yamanashi Prefecture

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, Japan

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. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was . He trained under Kyoshi Takahama

Kyoshi Takahama

was a Japanese poet active during the Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was ; Kyoshi was a pen name. He was one of the closest disciples of Masaoka Shiki.-Early life:...

, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu

Hototogisu

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and Unmo

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. He was chief editor of Unmo.

Collections of Dakotsu include Sanro shū (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932), Reishi (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940), Shinzō (The Mind’s Eye, 1947), Sekkyō (Snow Gorge, 1951), and Kakyō no kiri (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).