Hototogisu (ホトトギス, "lesser cuckoo") is a Japanese literary magazine focusing primarily on haiku. Founded in 1897, it was responsible for the spread of modern haiku among the Japanese public[1] and is now Japan's most prestigious and long-lived haiku periodical.[2]
History
editHototogisu was founded in 1897 in Matsuyama by Yanagihara Kyokudō, who edited it under the direction of Masaoka Shiki.[3] It soon became the leading forum for Shiki's Nippon school of haiku. The following year, the magazine's headquarters moved to Tokyo, and its editorship was taken over by Takahama Kyoshi.[3] At the same time, the magazine's scope was expanded to include tanka and haibun as well as haiku, and Shiki began publishing essays in his shaseibun ("sketch from life") prose style.[4] It had established itself as Japan's leading haiku magazine by this time, and the first Tokyo edition sold out on its first day.[5]
Following Shiki's death in 1902, the magazine's focus shifted to the fiction of modernist writers such as Natsume Sōseki, but in 1912, Kyoshi once again began including haiku.[6]
In 1916, Kyoshi initiated the "Kitchen Miscellanies" column in Hototogisu to promote the writings of women haiku poets such as Hisajo Sugita.[7][8]
When Kyoshi died in 1959, editorship passed to his son Toshio.[9] Teiko Inahata (1931–2022), Kyoshi's granddaughter, was editor from 1979 until 2013.[1][10][11] The current editor is Kotaro Inahata.
Notable contributors
editNotes
edit- ^ a b Hirai (2003), p. 7.
- ^ Ueda (2003), p. x.
- ^ a b Beichman (2002), p. 26.
- ^ Beichman (2002), p. 27.
- ^ Beichman (2002), p. 152.
- ^ Higginson & Harter (1985), p. 27.
- ^ Rodd, Laurel Rasplica. "Meiji Women's Poetry" in Copeland & Ortabasi (2006), p. 32
- ^ Ueda (2003), p. xxvi.
- ^ Higginson & Harter (1985), p. 28.
- ^ Donegan (2010), p. 100.
- ^ Ueda (2003), p. xxxii.
References
edit- Beichman, Janine (2002). Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works. Cheng & Tsui. ISBN 9780887273643.
- Copeland, Rebecca L.; Ortabasi, Melek, eds. (2006). The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231137751.
- Donegan, Patricia (2010). Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 9781590307588.
- Hirai, Masako, ed. (2003). Now, To Be! Shiki's Haiku Moments for Us Today / Ima, ikiru! Shiki no sekai. U-Time Publishing. ISBN 4-86010-040-9.
- Ueda, Makoto (2003). Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231128636.
- Higginson, William J.; Harter, Penny (1985). The Haiku Handbook: How to write, share, and teach haiku. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780070287860.
External links
edit- Hototogisu Magazine (in Japanese)