Dakotsu Iida Explained

Dakotsu Iida(Japanese: 飯田 蛇笏)
Birth Name:	Takeji Iida (Japanese: 飯田 武治)
Birth Date:	26 April 1885
Birth Place:	Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	Japanese

was a Japanese haiku poet from what is now part of the city of Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was . He trained under Kyoshi Takahama, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu (magazine) and . He was chief editor of Unmo until his death, upon which his son, the prominent haiku poet Ryuta Iida, took over as the editor of Unmo.

Partial bibliography

• Sanro shū, (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932)
• Reishi, (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940)
• Shinzō, (The Mind's Eye, 1947)
• Sekkyō, (Snow Gorge, 1951),
• Kakyō no kiri, (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).

See also

• Dakotsu Prize

References

• Marcombe Shiffert, Yūki Sawa: "Anthology of Modern Japanese Poetry", Neuauflage Tuttle Publishing, 1972,, S. 186
• Patricia Donegan: "Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart", Neuauflage Shambhala Publications, 2010,, S. 172
• Yuzuru Miura: "Classic Haiku: A Master's Selection", Neuauflage Tuttle Publishing, 1991,, S. 34