Career
A physician"s son, he was born in Nagasaki, and connected with Bashō in the 1680s. In 1691 he was one of the compilers, together with Nozawa Bonchō, of the Sarumino (Monkey"s Straw Raincoat) Bashō-school collection. After Bashō"s death he produced Kyoraishō, a rich source for the ideas of, and anecdotes about, his master.