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Hototogisu (ホトトギス, " lesser cuckoo") is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku. Founded in 1897, it was responsible for the spread of modern haiku among the Japanese public [1] and is now Japan's most prestigious and long-lived haiku periodical. [2]

History

Hototogisu was founded in 1897 in Matsuyama by Yanagihara Kyokudō, who edited it under the direction of Masaoka Shiki. [3] It soon became the leading forum for Shiki's Nippon school of haiku. The following year, the magazine's headquarters moved to Tokyo, and its editorship was taken over by Takahama Kyoshi. [3] At the same time, the magazine's scope was expanded to include tanka and haibun as well as haiku, and Shiki began publishing essays in his shaseibun ("sketch from life") prose style. [4] It had established itself as Japan's leading haiku magazine by this time, and the first Tokyo edition sold out on its first day. [5]

Following Shiki's death in 1902, the magazine's focus shifted to the fiction of modernist writers such as Natsume Sōseki, but in 1912, Kyoshi once again began including haiku. [6]

In 1916, Kyoshi initiated the "Kitchen Miscellanies" column in Hototogisu to promote the writings of women haiku poets such as Hisajo Sugita. [7] [8]

When Kyoshi died in 1959, editorship passed to his son Toshio. [9] Teiko Inahata (1931–2022), Kyoshi's granddaughter, was editor from 1979 until 2013. [1] [10] [11] The current editor is Kotaro Inahata [ ja].

Notable contributors

Notes

  1. ^ a b Hirai (2003), p. 7.
  2. ^ Ueda (2003), p. x.
  3. ^ a b Beichman (2002), p. 26.
  4. ^ Beichman (2002), p. 27.
  5. ^ Beichman (2002), p. 152.
  6. ^ Higginson & Harter (1985), p. 27.
  7. ^ Rodd, Laurel Rasplica. "Meiji Women's Poetry" in Copeland & Ortabasi (2006), p. 32
  8. ^ Ueda (2003), p. xxvi.
  9. ^ Higginson & Harter (1985), p. 28.
  10. ^ Donegan (2010), p. 100.
  11. ^ Ueda (2003), p. xxxii.

References

  • Beichman, Janine (2002). Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works. Cheng & Tsui. ISBN  9780887273643.
  • Copeland, Rebecca L.; Ortabasi, Melek, eds. (2006). The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. Columbia University Press. ISBN  9780231137751.
  • Donegan, Patricia (2010). Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart. Shambhala Publications. ISBN  9781590307588.
  • Hirai, Masako, ed. (2003). Now, To Be! Shiki's Haiku Moments for Us Today / Ima, ikiru! Shiki no sekai. U-Time Publishing. ISBN  4-86010-040-9.
  • Ueda, Makoto (2003). Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women. Columbia University Press. ISBN  9780231128636.
  • Higginson, William J.; Harter, Penny (1985). The Haiku Handbook: How to write, share, and teach haiku. McGraw-Hill. ISBN  9780070287860.

External links

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