Background
Choshu Ueda was born in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1853.
長州 上田
Choshu Ueda was born in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1853.
Choshu Ueda attended Osaka Military Academy but left it to enroll first in Keio University and then in Tokyo University. However, he did not graduate from either school due to illness.
Choshu Ueda fought for the Imperial cause during the Meiji Restoration under his uncle, Tesshin Ohara in 1868. Later he took up poetry and founded the Baikosha Publishing Company in 1881, which published the poetry magazine Koto Shinshi. Ueda did much for the development of haiku poetry and succeeded to the honorary haiku masters title of Hanano-moto, becoming the sixth person to bear the title (1890).