Kyoshi Takahama
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Kyoshi Takahama (高浜 虚子 Takahama Kyoshi?, 22 February 1874—8 April 1959) was a Japanese poet, one of the best disciples of Masaoka Shiki.
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Kyoshi was born in a place today Matsuyama, Ehime as a child of a samurai. At the age of 9 he inherited the grandmother's family, and he made an acquaintance via his classmate with Shiki who gave him a pen name "Kyoshi".
In 1898 Kyoshi came to manage a Haiku magazine "Hototogisu". In the magazine he kept the traditional style of haiku, as opposed to the new trend having been developed in Hekigo school. He died at age of 86, and he was buried in Jufukuji Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa.
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