Shōtetsu

Shōtetsu
Painting of Shotetsu by Sakai Hoitsu, early 19th century
Born1381 (1381)
Bitchū province, Japan
Died1459 (aged 77–78)
Kyoto, Japan

Shōtetsu (正徹, 1381–1459 CE) was a Japanese poet during the Muromachi period. He is considered to have been the last poet in the courtly waka tradition and a number of his disciples were important in the development of the renga art form, which led to the haiku.

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