The haiku poet and artist Yosa Buson was born in the village of Kema near Osaka in 1716. His actual surname is thought to have been Tani or Taniguchi, but he later used the name Yosa. One theory has ...

Buson’s last poem, composed on his deathbed in winter, imagines new beginnings in the coming of spring and a new day. Then, Buson murmured one more haiku, on the white plum blossoms, instructing that ...

Of all the eminent Edo Period Japanese artists being celebrated this year, the honors have definitively gone to the eccentric painter Ito Jakuchu (1603-1868), whose 300th anniversary is celebrated in ...