Tani Soyo Explained

(c. 1526–1563) was the son of Tani Sobuko. Sōyō was known as one of the most talented renga composers of his era. Being mainly known at being a rival of the famed composer, Satomura Joha, who was the leading master of the linked verse after Sōyō's death.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Keene, Donald . Warlords, Artists and Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century . Ellison . George . Smith . Bardwell L. . Jōha, a Sixteenth-Century Poet of Linked Verse . University of Hawaii Press . 1981 . 10.1515/9780824844929-009 . 116, 121. 978-0-8248-4492-9 .