Shōtetsu
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Shōtetsu (, 1381–1459 CE) was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period. He is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition and a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku.
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- Born
- 1381?
- Died
- 1459?
- Works
- 3
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- Nosaka-hon sōkonshū
- Shōtetsu monogatari
- Sōkonshū
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- name in native language
- 正徹
- date of birth
- 1381-01-01
- date of death
- 1459-06-18
- name in kana
- しょうてつ
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10 sectionsContents
- History
- Historical context
- His poetry
- Examples
- Teika
- Monogatari
- Partial list of works
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
Shōtetsu (, 1381–1459 CE) was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period. He is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition and a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku.
==History== He was born in 1381 in a minor fortified town in the then province of Bitchū (now Okayama) to a samurai of middling rank named Komatsu Ysukiyo. About ten years after his birth, Shōtetsu's family moved to Kyoto for unknown reasons. At approximately the age of 15 (by the Occidental count), he was sent to the religious center of Nara where he became an acolyte in an unspecified Buddhist temple. He would spend the next five years there studying, among other things, Buddhist scripture.