Nishiyama Soin

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Nishiyama Soin (born Nishiyama Toyoichi in 1605, Higo Province, Japan, died May 5, 1682, Kyoto) was a haikai-no-renga poet of the early Tokugawa period. He founded the Danrin (which translates as 'talkative forest') school of haikai poetry which aimed to move away from the serious 'bookishness' popular in Japanese poetry at the time and become more in touch with the common people, infusing a spirit of greater freedom into their poetry.

Soin's haikai (comical renga) became the transition between the light and clever haikai of Matsunaga Teitoku and the more serious and aesthetic haiku of Matsuo Bashō.

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