Background
Tachibana was born in Echizen (now part of Fukui Prefecture).
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Education
He studied to become a Nichiren priest for a time, but abandoned that and considered other career paths.
Career
He returned to his hometown of Echizen. He lived in voluntary poverty but that environment inspired "some of his most endearing poems, those describing the little pleasures of a poor scholar"s life."
During his life Tachibana"s poetry was only known in the Echizen region, but an 1899 newspaper article by Masaoka Shiki called national attention to his work.
Politics
Tachibana broke from tradition by writing poems about whatever he was contemplating at the time, including household minutia, industrial activity, and even nationalism, rather than limiting himself to nature scenes and romantic themes.
