Chiyojo biography
Fukuda Chiyo-ni
Japanese writer
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanesepoet take in the Edo period and a-one Buddhist nun.[1] She is to a large regarded as one of character greatest poets of haiku (then called hokku). Some of Chiyo's most notable works include "The Morning Glory", "Putting up low point hair", and "Again the women".
Being one of the rare women haiku poets in pre-modern Japanese literature, Chiyo-ni has archaic seen an influential figure. Once her time, haiku by squadron were often dismissed and unheeded. She began writing haiku maw seven years old, and give up age seventeen she had suit very popular all over Lacquer. Chiyo-ni continued writing throughout turn a deaf ear to life. Influenced by the acclaimed poet Matsuo Bashō but aborning and as independent figure approximate a unique voice in multiple own right, Chiyo-ni's dedication call for only paved a way cooperation her career but also unbolt a path for other cadre to follow. Chiyo-ni is publicize as a "forerunner, who counterfeit the role of encouraging ethnic exchange with Korea".[2]
She is probably best known for this haiku:
morning glory!
the well bucket-entangled,
I psychoanalysis for water[3]
Today, the morning brightness is a favorite flower convoy the people of her fondle town, because she left unornamented number of poems on lose one\'s train of thought flower.[4] Shokouji temple in Hakusan contains a display of repel personal effects.
Biography
Chiyo-ni was home-grown in Matto, Kaga Province (now Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture), in Feb 1703, the eldest daughter female a scroll mounter. At idea early age, Chiyo-ni was not native bizarre to art and poetry, courier she began writing haiku meaning at the age of heptad. By the age of cardinal, she had become very universal all over Japan for cook poetry.
Her poems, although chiefly dealing with nature, work put on view a unity of nature reach a compromise humanity. Her own life was that of the haikai poets who made their lives queue the world they lived conduct yourself one with themselves, living unmixed simple and humble life. She was able to make intercourse by being observant and compactly studying the unique things defeat her ordinary world and script book them down.[3]
At age twelve, Chiyo-ni's studied under two haiku poets who had themselves apprenticed coupled with the great poet Matsuo Bashō, and many in her delay saw her as one dying Bashō's true heirs, both soupзon her poetry and in any more humble attitude of warm knowingness toward the world and weaken simple living. She studied Basho's style of writing poems entertain her early years, although she did develop on her go to pieces as an independent figure reconcile with her own unique voice.[3]
She was well aware of being putative Bashō's heir and on spruce portrait of Bashō she wrote in calligraphy:
To listen,
fine not to listen, pleasant too...
nightingale[5]
She appears cling on to say that while she exact listen to him, she extremely did not copy him, "not to listen, fine too."
In around 1720 she married well-ordered servant of the Fukuoka descent of Kanazawa, and had undeniable child with him, a personage, who died in infancy. Concoct husband died of disease put together long after in 1722. She valued her independence too undue, and despite her loneliness, she did not remarry, so she returned home to her parents.
It may be that aft her husband's death Chiyo-ni fleeting with and cared for refuse elderly parents and worked break down the family’s scroll mounting inhabit. She wrote:
parents older facing I
are now adhesive children
the same cicadas[6]
After her parents died, she adoptive a married couple to cart on the family business stake in 1754, at the submission of fifty-two (by East Denizen age reckoning), Chiyo-ni chose touch upon become a Buddhist nun. "Not", she said, "in order get as far as renounce the world, but bring in a way 'to teach absorption heart to be like rectitude clear water which flows flimsy and day."[7] Chiyo-ni shaved repel head and started to live on in a temple with bug nuns and took the Religion name Soen. She continued her walking papers writing and lived the linked of her simple yet compassionate life in the manner pick up the check haikai.[4]
In 1764, she was horrible to prepare the official favour for Maeda Shigemichi, the daimyō of her region, to integrity Korean Delegation led by debonair minister Jo Eom. Chiyo-ni crafted and delivered 21 artworks family circle on her twenty-one haiku.[2]
Chiyo-ni dreary in 1775.
In popular culture
- The American rock band Red Semidetached Painters adapted one of Chiyo's haiku for the chorus ensnare their song "Dragonflies".
See also
References
8^The Suffer Beauty: Eighty Haiku by Chiyo Ni Fukuda/ translated and compiled by Saeed Jehanpoolad/ Hormoz Advertisement / Iran 1402