Yosa Buson
Biography. Buson was born in the village of Kema in Settsu Province (now Kema-chō, Miyakojima Ward in Osaka city). His original family name was Taniguchi. Around the age of 20, Buson moved to Edo (now Tokyo) and learned poetry under the tutelage of the haikai master Hayano Hajin. After Hajin died, Buson moved to Shimōsa Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture). Following in the footsteps of his idol, Matsuo Bashō, Buson travelled through the wilds of northern Honshū that had been the inspiration for Bashō's famous travel diary, "Oku no Hosomichi" ("The Narrow Road to the Interior ). He published his notes from the trip in 1744, marking the first time he published under the name Buson. After travelling through various parts of Japan, including Tango (the northern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture) and Sanuki (Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku), Buson settled down in the city of Kyoto at the age of 42. Around this time, he began to write under the name of Yosa, which he took from his mother's birthplace (Yosa in the province of Tango). Buson married at the age of 45 and had one daughter, Kuno. At the age of 51, he left his 	Yosa Buson
17094178	wife and children in Kyoto and went to Sanuki province (now, Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku) to work on many works. After returning to Kyoto again, he wrote and taught poetry at the Sumiya". As models for his pupils, he singled out four of Bashō's disciples: Kikaku, Kyorai, Ransetsu, and Sodō. In 1770, he assumed the "haigō" (, haiku pen name) of Yahantei II (二世, "Midnight Studio"), which had been the pen name of his teacher Hajin. Buson died at the age of 68 and was buried at Konpuku-ji in Kyoto. The cause of death was previously diagnosed as severe  diarrhea, but recent investigations indicate that it was myocardial infarction. His work is kept in many museums worldwide, including the Seattle Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Harvard Art Museums, the Worcester Art Museum, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the British Museum.