Pathography of Taneda Santoka
The bulletin of the Yamaguchi Medical School Volume 45 Issue 1-4
Page 1-6
published_at 1998-12
Title
Pathography of Taneda Santoka
Creators
Yamada Michio
Source Identifiers
Creator Keywords
Santoka
free-style haiku
depression
drinking dropout
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.
Languages
eng
Resource Type
departmental bulletin paper
Publishers
Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine
Date Issued
1998-12
File Version
Version of Record
Access Rights
open access
Relations
[ISSN]0513-1812
[NCID]AA00594272
Schools
医学部