Education
He came from Kanazawa in the middle Edo period, and studied under Otsuyu.
He came from Kanazawa in the middle Edo period, and studied under Otsuyu.
Little is known of Bakusui"s life apart from his poems. in 1770 he wrote a book of laconic comments on Bashō"s hokku, called Jōkyō shōfū kukai densho (Orthodox style of the Jōkyō era: Verses with critical commentary). One of Bakusui"s poems, on the popular haiku theme of the dragonfly, runs:
Dyeing his body
autumn—
the dragonfly.
He is considered romantic by temperament, and he attempted to revive the early style of the classical poet Matsuo Bashō from the book Minashiguri.