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Miaki Orikasa

おりがさ びしゅう

Origasa Bishu

ペンネーム: Bishu(Used as a haiku pen name)

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1934-12-23 (Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan)
死没
1990-03-17 55歳
国籍
Japan
言語
Japanese

経歴

職業
haiku poet, newspaper journalist, haiku critic
活動期間
1958年〜1990年
影響を受けた人物
Akio Tomizawa, Abe Seika, Shigenobu Takayanagi

学歴

Waseda University
Faculty of Letters / Japanese Literature
卒業年: 1958
国: Japan

受賞歴

3rd Haiku Hyoron Prize (criticism category)
1967
部門: 評論の部
主催: Haiku Hyoron (magazine)
結果: 受賞
Modern Haiku Association Prize
1985
対象作品: If You Were a Butterfly
主催: Modern Haiku Association
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Koshoki

1984年 Haiku collection

A collection of early haiku, including prose-like verses and experiments with multi-line formats.

natureeveryday lifeformal experimentation

If You Were a Butterfly

1987年 Haiku collection

A representative collection featuring many poems from his period of illness; notable for perspectives from the sickbed and sensitivity to life and death.

illness and recoverylife and deathnatural imagery

Kaden-sho

1989年 Haiku collection

A late-career collection comprising poems created while confronting illness.

hospital bedsolitudecontemplation

The Shroud for the Journey to Death

1989年 Memoir / illness record

A nonfiction record of his time on the sickbed, conveying the realities and emotional life during his illness.

illness memoirfamilyacceptance of death

全著作

  • Koshoki (1984, Haiku Hyoronsha)
  • If You Were a Butterfly (1987, Rippu Shobo)
  • Kaden-sho (1989, Ki no Kai)
  • The Shroud for the Journey to Death (1989, Fujimi Shobo)
  • No, Your Majesty (1998, Ki no Kai; essays)
  • Kitasato Gyoga Tekiteki / Kochiki (2019, Tategami no Kai; ed. Sumishi Terada)

翻案

  • Wife, O Wife (TV drama, 1987)
  • Documentary program about Miaki Orikasa's illness and life

作風・主題

文体
prose-like haikuexperimentation with multi-line formstherapeutic/sickbed haiku
頻出モチーフ
butterflieshospital bed / illnessdreams / disappearancebread / foodgalaxy / cosmos

健康

  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
    1982-1990
    Onset in 1982 leading to hospitalization and progressive paralysis. He continued composing with the aid of his wife, who interpreted slight movements of his mouth and eyes.

評価・遺産

Regarded as a poet who fused sickbed haiku with avant-garde formal experiments. His life confronting illness and continued creativity was widely read and brought to broader public attention through his wife's memoirs and television adaptations.

関連学会

  • Modern Haiku Association

資料所蔵先

  • National Diet Library (holds works and related materials)

大衆文化への影響

  • TV drama 'Wife, O Wife' based on his wife's memoir
  • Documentary programs about his illness and life

引用

  • Roasting mochi — one missing dream
    出典: Collected haiku / date unspecified (representative poem) (1984年)
  • To the sunlit field — if it were you, you could ride a butterfly
    出典: If You Were a Butterfly (1987) (1987年)
  • Two hundred steps to the bakery — seven steps to the galaxy
    出典: Collected haiku / representative poem (1987年)

豆知識

  • His legal name was Miaki (given name written 美昭); he used the haiku name Bishu.
  • Despite onset of ALS in 1982, he continued to compose with his wife's assistance interpreting slight movements.
  • His wife's memoirs were adapted into television drama and documentary programs.