Ihara Saikaku was a Japanese poet and the creator of the floating world genre of Japanese prose, known as ukiyo-zoshi. His birth name may have been Hirayama Togo, and he was the son of a wealthy merchant in Osaka. He first studied haikai poetry. He lived from 1642 to 1693. He studied haikai poetry under a follower of Matsunaga Teitoku and later under Nishiyama Soin of the Danrin school, which emphasized comic linked verse. Scholars describe extraordinary feats of solo composition: in 1677 he is known to have composed sixteen hundred haikai verses in a single day and night.
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Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴) (Japanese pronunciation: [i.ha.ɾa saꜜi.ka.kɯ, iꜜ.ha.ɾa | saꜜi.ka.kɯ], 1642
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