Toyojo Matsune

Background

Toyojo was born in 1878, in Tokyo, Japan.

Education

He graduated from Law Course of Tokyo University in 1905.

Career

He served in the Department of the Imperial Household as a secretary but left his post in 1919.

He studied under Soseki Natsume and joined the editorial staff of the Hototogisu (Cuckoo) haiku magazine.

With Dakotsu Iida and Bou Kubota, started a resistance movement against the then prevailing “neo-tendency.”

His works are influenced by Basho's style.

Works

• book

  • Haikaido

    (Way of Haiku Poetry)

• poem

  • Shibugaki

    (Astringent Persimmon)

    1915

  • Maki- mizucho

    (Wood-Water Note)

  • Mayuzumi

    (Eyebrow Paint)

Membership

He was a member of the Japan Academy of Art.

He was elected member of the Japan Art Academy in 1953.