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Kineo Hayashida

はやしだ きねお

Hayashida Kineo

Aliases: 林田 甲子男

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1924-08-14 (Keijo (Kyongseong), Korea (now Seoul, South Korea))
Died
1998-06-14 age 73
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
haiku poet
Active Years
1937-1998
Affiliations
Kongo (member), Jushichionshi (co-founder / member), Kaite (member), Kayou (guest member)
Memberships
Modern Haiku Association
Influenced By
Kaita Shimomura, Ashio Hori, Tota Kaneko, Rokurinuo Suzuki
Influenced
Motoi Fukuda

Education

Osaka Prefectural Imamiya Technical School (old system)
Country: Japan
A former technical vocational school (prewar system). Predecessor of the current Osaka Prefectural Imamiya Technical High School.

Awards

Gendai Haiku Association Award
1963
Organization: Modern Haiku Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Fushoku

Haiku collection

A haiku collection reflecting avant-garde and unseasonal orientation. Many poems depict everyday objects poetically.

unseasonal haikueveryday lifeavant-garde haiku

Gento

Haiku collection

A collection emphasizing imagery. Rejects seasonal words and strengthens a perspective of life-poetry.

imagerylife-poetryno-season

Collected Haiku of Kineo Hayashida

Collected haiku

A collection containing representative haiku. After his death, his disciple compiled and published the complete collections.

no-season haikuurban and daily lifeexistence and death

Bibliography

  • Fushoku
  • Gento
  • Collected Haiku of Kineo Hayashida

Style & Themes

Literary Style
avant-garde haikuno-season haikupoetic perspective from everyday life
Recurring Motifs
everyday objectsno-season scenesshadows of death and existence

Legacy

As a central member of the Kansai avant-garde haiku group, he upheld unseasonal haiku and contributed to avant-garde haiku movements such as 'Jushichionshi'. He received the Modern Haiku Association Award in 1963; after his death his disciple Motoi Fukuda published his collected haiku.

Academic Societies

  • Modern Haiku Association

Archives

  • National Diet Library (holdings)
  • VIAF (identifier available)

Quotes

  • If it's a pencil's suicide note, it will be easily forgotten.
    Source: Haiku collection / source unspecified
  • Yellow, blue, red umbrellas — who will die from them?
    Source: Haiku collection / source unspecified

Trivia

  • Born in Keijo (now Seoul). Considered one of the repatriates to Japan.
  • Legal name was Hayashida Kasion (林田甲子男); haiku name was Kineo Hayashida.
  • All his haiku collections were compiled and published in 2006 by his sole disciple, Motoi Fukuda.