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Vinony files it under 1642 births, 1693 deaths and 17th-century Japanese novelists.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Hirayama Togo (平山藤五) , 1642, Osaka , Japan
- Died
- September 9, 1693 (aged 50 – 51), Osaka , Japan
- Occupation
- Writer
- Genre
- Poetry, Fiction
- Literary movement
- Ukiyo-zōshi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Occupation
- playwright
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Notable work
- ukiyozōshi
- Genre
- haikai
- Movement
- Danrin school
- Image
- Ihara-Saikaku-Portrait.png
- Work location
- Osaka
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- Commons category
- Ihara Saikaku
- date of birth
- 1642-01-01
- writing language
- Japanese
- date of death
- 1693-09-09
- described by source
- Literary Encyclopedia 1929—1939
- name in kana
- いはら さいかく
- name in native language
- 井原西鶴
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- pseudonym
- 西鵬
- time period
- 17th century
- P8168
- Echinacea purpurea
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Encyclopedic overview
Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) ( Japanese pronunciation: [i.ha.ɾa saꜜi.ka.kɯ, iꜜ.ha.ɾa | saꜜi.ka.kɯ], 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).
His born name may have been Hirayama Tōgo (平山藤五), the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka, and he first studied haikai poetry under a follower of Matsunaga Teitoku and later studied under Nishiyama Sōin of the Danrin school of poetry, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars have described numerous extraordinary feats of solo haikai composition at one sitting; most famously, over the course of a single day and night in 1677 Saikaku is known to have composed 1,600 haikai verses and an amazing 23,500 verses in a single day and night in 1684.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ihara Saikaku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.