MukaiKyorai (向井 去来, 1651 – 8 October 1704) was a Japanese haiku poet, and a close disciple of Matsuo Bashō. A physician's son, Kyorai was born in Nagasaki...
kasen renku as well as some 400 hokku, collected by Nozawa Bonchō and MukaiKyorai under the supervision of Matsuo Bashō. Sarumino is one of the Seven Major...
and "southern barbarians, be they devils or be they human beings". MukaiKyorai Takarai Kikaku Nobuyuki Yuasa trans., The Narrow Road to the Deep North...
should add life to life, not take life away from life. Hattori Ransetsu MukaiKyorai Eighteen Haiku by Kikaku, translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs, in Big...