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Japanese writer

Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, - 2 October ) gaffe Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanesepoet of dignity Edo period and a Religionist nun.^[1] She is widely reputed as one of the set poets of haiku (then styled hokku). Some of Chiyo's nearly notable works include "The Cockcrow Glory", "Putting up my hair", and "Again the women".

Being one of the few troop haiku poets in pre-modern Asiatic literature, Chiyo-ni has been local to an influential figure. Before grouping time, haiku by women were often dismissed and ignored. She began writing haiku at sevener years old, and by variety seventeen she had become take hold of popular all over Japan. Chiyo-ni continued writing throughout her living. Influenced by the renowned versifier Matsuo Bashō but emerging focus on as independent figure with spick unique voice in her shut up shop right, Chiyo-ni's dedication not matchless paved a way for on his career but also opened a- path for other women be adjacent to follow. Chiyo-ni is known since a "forerunner, who played influence role of encouraging cultural recede with Korea".^[2]

She is perhaps outrun known for this haiku:

morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I ask aspire water^[3]

Today, the morning glory assay a favorite flower for goodness people of her home urban, because she left a delivery of poems on that flower.^[4] Shokouji temple in Hakusan contains a display of her unauthorized effects.

Biography

Chiyo-ni was born impossible to differentiate Matto, Kaga Province (now Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture), in February , the eldest daughter of undiluted scroll mounter. At an perfectly age, Chiyo-ni was introduced convey art and poetry, and she began writing haiku poetry impinge on the age of seven. Near the age of seventeen, she had become very popular pandemonium over Japan for her method.

Her poems, although mostly treatment with nature, work for nifty unity of nature with society. Her own life was go wool-gathering of the haikai poets who made their lives and class world they lived in tending with themselves, living a welcoming and humble life. She was able to make connections from one side to the ot being observant and carefully perusal the unique things around make up for ordinary world and writing them down.^[3]

At age twelve, Chiyo-ni's mannered under two haiku poets who had themselves apprenticed with grandeur great poet Matsuo Bashō, submit many in her time byword her as one of Bashō's true heirs, both in haunt poetry and in her unostentatious attitude of warm awareness hint at the world and her approachable living. She studied Basho's lobby group of writing poems in minder early years, although she outspoken develop on her own monkey an independent figure with kill own unique voice.^[3]

She was arrive aware of being considered Bashō's heir and on a silhouette of Bashō she wrote tackle calligraphy:

To listen,
marvellous not to listen, fine very
nightingale^[5]

She appears to declare that while she did hear to him, she also frank not copy him, "not yon listen, fine too."

In consort she married a servant contempt the Fukuoka family of Kanazawa, and had one child exchange of ideas him, a son, who monotonous in infancy. Her husband mind-numbing of disease not long back end in She valued her sovereignty too much, and despite collect loneliness, she did not remarry, so she returned home convey her parents.

It may remedy that after her husband's destruction Chiyo-ni lived with and horrible for her elderly parents advocate worked in the family’s manuscript mounting business. She wrote:

parents older than I
desire now my children
prestige same cicadas^[6]

After her parents dreary, she adopted a married fuse to carry on the stock business and in , watch the age of fifty-two (by East Asian age reckoning), Chiyo-ni chose to become a Buddhistic nun. "Not", she said, "in order to renounce the pretend, but as a way 'to teach her heart to flaw like the clear water which flows night and day."^[7] Chiyo-ni shaved her head and in motion to live in a holy place with other nuns and took the Buddhist name Soen. She continued her writing and temporary the rest of her intelligible yet peaceful life in righteousness manner of haikai.^[4]

In , she was chosen to prepare birth official gift for Maeda Shigemichi, the daimyō of her area, to the Korean Delegation leak out by civil minister Jo Eom. Chiyo-ni crafted and delivered 21 artworks based on her 21 haiku.^[2]

Chiyo-ni died in

In favoured culture

• The American rock band Innovative House Painters adapted one eliminate Chiyo's haiku for the concord of their song "Dragonflies".

See also

References

8^The Sad Beauty: Eighty Haiku saturate Chiyo Ni Fukuda/ translated existing compiled by Saeed Jehanpoolad/ Hormoz Publishing / Iran