About Nozawa Bonchō
Lived 1640 – 1714 (aged 73–74). Nozawa Bonchō was a Japanese poet.
was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Bonchō was one of Matsuo Bashō's leading disciples and, together with Kyorai, he edited the Bashō school's Monkey's Raincoat (Sarumino) anthology of 1689. He participated in numerous renku with Bashō and other members of his Shōmon school.
A famous hokku by Bonchō:
市中は物のにほひや夏の月 Machinaka ha / mono no nioi ya / natsu no tsuki
Downtown the smells of things… summer moon (trans. Sean Price)
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Japanese writer
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Nozawa Bonchō was born in 1640 in Kanazawa.
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Nozawa Bonchō died in 1714 in Kyoto.
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