Suiha Watanabe

Background

Suiha Watanabe (Real personal name: Yoshi) was born in 1882 in Tokyo, Japan.

Education

Suiha Watanabe became a disciple of Meisetsu Naito (1901) and later Kyoshi Takahama.

Career

Disagreeing with the realism advocated by Takabama in his magazine Hototogisu (Cuckoo), Watanabe published his own haiku magazine Kyokusui (Crooked Waters) and tried for perfection of haiku based upon real life, writing haiku poems of an emotional variety.

Connections

Father:

Seitei Watanabe