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Yosa Buson (1716-1784) began life as a poet, was a monk and a master of haiku poemslong before he embarked on a career as a painter.!
Biography of Yosa Buson
Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. He is also known for completing haiga as a style of art, working with haibun prose, and experimenting with a mixed Chinese-Japanese style of poetry.
Biography
Early life, training, and travels
Buson was born in the village of Kema in Settsu Province (present-day Kema, Miyakojima Ward, Osaka).
His original family name was Taniguchi. Buson scarcely discussed his childhood, but it is commonly thought that he was the illegitimate son of the village head and a migrant worker from Yoza.
Yosa Buson (1716-83) is a towering figure in the history of haiku.
According to the Taniguchi family in Yosano, Kyoto, Buson was the son of a servant woman named Gen, who had come to work in Osaka and had a child with her master. A grave of Gen survives in Yosano. There is an oral tradition that the young Buson had been cared