Kagawa Kageki

Kagawa Kageki

▪ Japanese poet
also called  Keien  
born May 25, 1768, Tottori, Japan
died April 26, 1843, Japan

      Japanese poet and literary scholar of the late Tokugawa period (1603–1867) who founded the Keien school of poetry.

      Kageki was born into a samurai family, but by the age of 25 he left his home and studied under Kagawa Kagetomo in Kyōto. Kageki was adopted by the Kagawa family but later broke with Kagetomo.

      In 1796 he met Ozawa Roan, whose rejection of the traditional and formal poetic style and advocacy of simple and honest expression of feelings greatly influenced him. He began advocating the concept of shirabe (“tuning”), stating that the tone of a poem was more important than its intellectual content. In the early 19th century Kageki became the leading poet of Kyōto and established the Keien school; he increased his reputation by publishing Shingaku iken (1811), in which he criticized the poetic style of Kamo Mabuchi. Many of his poems of this period were published in the anthology Keien isshi (1828).

      His views and the establishment of his school won him the enmity of Mabuchi's disciples and of other established schools. Despite their attacks, his influence survived his death, and the Keien school remained a major force in Japanese poetry until the late 19th century.

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