Background
Baika Nakanishi was born in 1867. He was the son of a physician of the Chinese school.
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Baika Nakanishi
Edit Profile梅 中西
also known as
Mikio Nakanishi
Education
He had almost no regular schooling.
Career
After his wanderings around the country, Baika became a reporter for Kokumin Shimbun ("The People's Newspaper"). At the urge of Rohan Koda, noted novelist, he published his poems in the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Miyako-no-Hana magazine (from 1889). He became a rival of Bimyosai Yamada, well-known poet of the time.
