Background
Hakku Oka was born in 1692 in Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture), Japan.
Hakku Oka was born in 1692 in Harima Province (Hyogo Prefecture), Japan.
Hakku Oka practiced medicine at Nishinomiya before he went to Kyoto and became a Confucian scholar. Wrote many books.
Hakku Oka was a rival of Nankaku Hattori and Nankai Gian, noted composers of Chinese poems. Stopped writing poetry suddenly and turned to Confucianism and studied novels and slang.