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1, 2-chome, Tenjinbashi, Kita-ku at the front of Temmangu Shrine |
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[ Minamimorimachi ] by Tanimachi and Keihan
Line, about 250m to the southeast |
Nishiyama Soin was born in Higo-Yatsushiro
(Kumamoto Prefecture) and a samurai who worked
under Kato clan. After the ruin of the Kato clan, he intended to become a renga (linked poem) poet in Kyoto. He moved to live in a hermitage named Koeian in Osaka in the 19th year of Kanei(1642) and played a main role of making haiku poem as a chief leader of Danrin sect. Among disciples were Saikaku, Onitsura, Raizan and others. He was dead in the 2nd year of Tenna(1682) at 78. |
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