Dakotsu Iida

In this Japanese name, the family name is Iida.

Dakotsu Iida (飯田 蛇笏 Iida Dakotsu, 26 April 1885 – 3 October 1962) was a famous Japanese haiku poet from what is now part of the cirt of Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan. Commonly referred to as Dakotsu, his real name was Takeji Iida (飯田 武治 Iida Takeji). He trained under Kyoshi Takahama, and was a frequent contributor to such haiku journals as Hototogisu (magazine) and Unmo. He was chief editor of Unmo.

Collections of Dakotsu include Sanro shū (The Mountain Hat Collection, 1932), Reishi (The Ten-Thousand-Year Mushroom, 1940), Shinzō (The Mind’s Eye, 1947), Sekkyō (Snow Gorge, 1951), and Kakyō no kiri (Fog and My Native Land, 1956).


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