Tanehira Unagami

Background

Tanehira Unagami was born in 1829 in Shimo-osa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Education

After learning fencing from Shusaku Chiba toured the provinces as a fencing master till he came to Wakayama where he settled to study waka poetry under Morohei Kano.

Works

• book

  • Tokyo Taika Jyūyon Kashūron

    (This book is a collection of Essays on the Works of 14 Ma...)

  • Hatta Tomonori Kashū

    (This book is about The Anthologies of Tomonori Hatta.)

Personality

Tanehira Unagami was very interested in waka poetry. He modeled his poems after those of Mabuchi Kamo. Valued the Manyō style and bitterly criticized the poems of Keien school founded by Kageki Kagawa.

Interests

• Poetry

• Sport & Clubs

  Fencing