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Uejima Onitsura (16601738): The Forgotten First Great Haiku Poet [ 上島鬼貫 (うえしま おにつら) ] by David E. Navarro, April 2022 Born to a family of saké (rice wine) brewers in Itami (present-day Hyōgo Prefecture), Onitsura showed exceptional talent in poetry at the age of 8.1,2 At 13 he moved to Kyoto to study haikai* with Matsue Shigeyori who belonged to the Teimon school of haikai and other poetry.3 Shigeyori had inspired the poet Nishiyama Sōin to start writing haikai.3 Sōin then founded the Danrin school of haikai which aimed to move away from the serious bookishness of contemporary Japanese poetry to become more in touch with the common people, infusing a spirit of greater freedom into poetry.4 At 16, Onitsura joined the Danrin school of haikai.1 After some time he began to have doubts about the form of haikai practiced by the Danrin school because of its tendency toward coarse humor and what he called superficial cleverness; and so