Shotetsu
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Shotetsu (正徹; 1381–1459) was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period. He is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition and a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku.
Quotes
- When I
look upon
the rich sheen
of summer hairs
in my new brush,
I am saddened
by a deer
drawn
at night
to a hunter's torch.- "Summer Writing Brush", Unforgotten Dreams: Poems by the Zen Monk Shōtetsu, 1997, edited and translated by Steven D. Carter, page 53
