Mukai Kyorai
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| Intro | Poet | ||
| Places | Japan | ||
| was | Poet Writer | ||
| Work field | Literature | ||
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| Birth | 1 January 1651, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan | ||
| Death | 8 October 1704Kyoto, Kyōto Prefecture, Kansai region, Japan (aged 53 years) | ||
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Mukai Kyorai (向井 去来, 1651 – 8 October 1704) was a Japanese haikai poet, and a close disciple of Matsuo Bashō. A physician's son, he was born in Nagasaki, and connected with Bashō in the 1680s. In 1691 he was one of the compilers, together with Nozawa Bonchō, of the Sarumino (Monkey's Straw Raincoat) Bashō-school collection. After Bashō's death he produced Kyoraishō, a rich source for the ideas of, and anecdotes about, his master.