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The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 45 Issue 1-4
published_at 1998-12

Pathography of Taneda Santoka

Pathography of Taneda Santoka
Yamada Michio
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Taneda Santoka was the son of a rich landowner. His mother committed suicide when he was a child.The impact o her suicide lasted throughout his life and prevented him from maintaining a reponsible occupation. Dring the latter half of his life, he went on a pilgrimage as a Zen buddhist priest, and finally secluded himself in a hermitage. The present paper explains the art of his haiku, which is open , slear, sensitive and free from conservative rules, in relation to his way of life, from which his poems were derived. He was a hard drinking dropout and, at the same time, a master of life. I believe that this contradiction may be source of his creativity.
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Santoka
free-style haiku
depression
drinking dropout