Dakotsu Iida
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Dakotsu Iida (April 26, 1885-October 3, 1962) was a famous Japanese haiku poet from Yamanashi, Japan. Iida trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was a frequent contributer to such haiku journals as Hototogisu and Unmo. He was chief editor of Unmo.
Collections of Dakotsu Iida include Sanro shû (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932), Reishi (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940), Shinzô (The Mind’s Eye, 1947), Sekkyô (Snow Gorge, 1951), and Kakyô no kiri (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).