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Masaoka Shiki

Masaoka Shiki
Masaoka Shiki, Japanese poet, author, and critic (d. 1902)

Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Noboru, was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan. Shiki is regarded as a major figure in the development of modern haiku poetry, credited with writing nearly 20,000 stanzas during his short life. He also wrote on reform of tanka poetry.

14 October 1867

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