Dakotsu Iida

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In this Japanese name, the family name is Iida.

Dakotsu Iida (飯田 蛇笏? 26 April 1885 – 3 October 1962) was a famous Japanese haiku poet from Yamanashi, Japan. His real name was Takeji Iida (飯田 武治?). He is commonly referred to as Dakotsu. He trained under Takahama Kyoshi, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu and Unmo. He was chief editor of Unmo.

Collections of Dakotsu 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).

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