Yanagawa Seigan 梁川星巌

梁川星巌 Yanagawa Seigan (1789-1858)
Chinese poet of the late Edo period. A scholar of the Japanese school of Japanese poetry. Born in Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture), he went to Edo at the age of 19 and studied Confucianism and poetry under Yamamoto Hokuzan. He was involved in the movement to overthrow the shogunate, but died of cholera on September 2, 1872, shortly before the Great Prison of Ansei (1854). He left over 5,000 poems, and his reputation as a poet is even higher than that of Rai Sanyo. His wife, Koran (1804-79), was also active as a female poet at the end of the Edo period.

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